Description: Describes session at the 2015 Life and Annuity Symposium on a new electronic exchange for equity securities, IEX. The exchange rules limit the potential for high frequency traders to front-run customer orders.

Description: Previews the investment sessions at the October 2015 SOA annual meeting in Austin, TX.

Description: Invites readers to submit topics on the theme of "This Time It's Different. Members will then be invited to submit essays for and against.

Description: Argues renewable energy will displace fossil fuels, leading to investment opportunities and risks

Description: Discusses some of the new and different ideas being considered by the Wilcox Committee that is working on the Unified Valuation System, UVS, especially as they relate to smaller companies.

Description: This articles provides tactics to consider to help eliminate the 21st century version of the ‘generation gap’ because, despite being in the same profession, we may be approaching our work from different perspectives.

Description: This article discusses two recent 2005 IRS private letter rulings that involved the meaning of “cash surrender value” as used under code section 7702, which defines a life insurance contract for federal income tax purposes.

Description: A discuss of notice and consent requirements for employer-owned life insurance policies and the IRS rules again on an annuity-LTC combination product.

Description: A discussion around the comment letter that the ACLI submitted on the proposed regulations to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Description: Capitalization of Certain Policy Acquisition Expenses - Changes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.