Description: Administration system updates and conversions. Legacy systems and their associated problems. Continued low interest rates and in-force policy management actions affecting policyholder behavior. These are but a few of the taxation challenges facing insurers managing the growing complexity of their businesses.<p> Presenters will consider these and other product taxation-related issues, highlighting ways insurers have sought to address them, their impacts, and potential mitigation strategies

Description: The article highlights key considerations as companies begin to reserve for their IUL products under PBR.

Description: Describes some of the content of the Underwriting issues and innovations seminar for the last 2 years, and lays out the topics for the seminar for 2015.

Description: AG 49 pertains to illustrated life insurance products with a crediting rate tied to an index. The guideline discusses the maximum illustrated credited rate and format changes to illustrations.

Description: Welcome message from the new Chairperson of the Product Development Section.

Description: Read the July 2016 issue of Product Matters!

Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

Description: Read the February 2018 issue of Product Matters published by the Product Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article provides guidance on when experience rated designs are more suitable for COLI/BOLI programs than other designs. The article includes strategies to minimizing excessive mortality-related costs within these programs.

Description: The article explores the possibility of using the emerging technology for life insurers to build a monitor system for better risk and profitability management.