Description: Summary of the December 2003 NAIC Meeting

Description: Article discusses the findings of the SOA International Experience Survey on embedded-value financial assumptions. It is intended to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data.

Description: This article provides a summary of the key findings from Milliman's 8th annual survey of lading UL carriers. The survey covers issues and challenges of UL/IUL products and allows companies to benchmark their practices against the competition.

Description: Read the October 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: Milliman was engaged by the SOA to conduct two Accelerated Underwriting (AU) surveys, one of direct companies and another of reinsurers. The surveys explored actual results from 2019–2021 and expected results from 2022.

Description: SECURE 2.0 included provisions that improve the ability of insurers to serve those who own qualified annuities. Several previously disallowed distribution methods are now allowed. These changes should increase the availability and desirability by contract owners to choose a payout annuity compared to required minimum distributions. An insurer considering enhancing qualified annuitization offerings might follow the approach outlined to potentially increase qualified annuitization sales and assist contract owners in protecting their principal more directly than previously.

Description: This article explores implications for the future of improving the application of existing underwriting techniques and and taking maximum advantage of new technologies.

Description: Provides the reader with the most up-to-date status of the adoption of Regulation XXX. Each state insurance department was contacted between November 5–19, 1997 with subsequent follow-up discussions through March 1998. The information in this article reflects both where a state currently stands on the measure and its anticipated activity on the regulation in 1998.

Description: This article discusses sessions from the product development section post symposium seminar on product development - beginning to end. Sessions included product specific topics like term, universal life with secondary guarantees, and indexed products. Panel discussions included inforce management and advanced modeling issues.

Description: The objective of this article is to help indexed annuity writers understand the pricing practices and ALM strategies used by their peers in the industry, especially in light of the prevailing low interest rate environment and a possible rise in interest rates.