Description: This article explains the work of the NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force to draft a new standard valuation law from scratch. The author describes his version of the law based on his own opinions.

Description: This article addresses the expected impact that the 2001 CSO table will have on pricing and product structure for UL plans.

Description: This is an article about debt protection and credit insurance as products. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: A discussion of the contents of this issue of smalltalk including regulatory issues that impact insurance and smaller insurance companies. Also discussed are two major regulatory issues, health care reform and financial regulatory reform.

Description: Describe the sessions at this year's valuation actuary symposium that are being sponsored by SmallCo.

Description: This article discusses why the Unclaimed Property issue that is swirling around the Insurance Industry is important to actuaries.

Description: This article discusses the the 1998 alternartive XXX model regulations and the potential tax impact on the definition of life insurance and on reserve deductions associated therewith.

Description: Discussion of the prospect of federal insurance regulation.

Description: Status of state passage of the new Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum regulation and its effect on Section 7 opinions.

Description: The ACLI porposed some changes to the current Standard Valuation Law even though Principles Based Reserving PBR is being considered as SVL II by the regulatory community. This article outlines the current SVL, those recent changes to the current SVL and the implications of the changes.