Description: This report documents the “Constructing Occupational -Specific Life Tables for China” project under the “China Research Topics” proposal.

Description: This is an article that has excerpts from each of the four winning papers of a contest sponsored by the Society of Actuaries on the subject of visions of the life insurance industry in 2020.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. The session focuses on pricing and product design in emerging insurance markets in an inflationary or devaluation-plagued environment.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session on next-generation UL, the panelists explored 1999 product development issues relating to the general account/non-equity-indexed universal life product.

Description: This session 68 TS of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discusses profit measures such as profit margin, statutory return on investment ROI, and return on equity ROE have been used to make decisions concerning new products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 68TS.

Description: This is an article about the “hardening” market for reinsurance on term and universal life with secondary guarantees. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: This article discusses Actuarial Guideline CCC and its impact on ROP Term.

Description: The Effects of Triple-X on Product Design by Mary Bahna-Nolan from Product Development News, August 2000, Issue No. 50.

Description: This article gives examples of how an actuary can live by the actuarial motto of substituting facts for appearances. The specific examples given are setting the mortality for table shaved individual life business and setting late duration lapse assumptions for level term business.

Description: Feature article describing the events of the recent 2012 ReFocus meeting.