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2024
- Accumulated Annuity Design
- SOA Accelerated Underwriting Practices Survey
- Racing to the Top: Combo Products Position Carriers to Seize Growth Opportunities
Editor's Note: This article was previously published by Munich Re.
February
- Harnessing BI Tools for In-force Metrics and KPIs
- Are Your Indexed UL Earnings Underperforming Pricing Expectations?
- What Are the Odds?
- Fixed Indexed Annuity overview in the U.S. and Japan
By Zi Xiang Low, Manabu Shoji, and David Wang
This article is reprinted here with permission from Milliman.
2023
November
- Confusing the Matrix: Part Deux
- Cost-Benefit Analysis: Quantifying the Value of EHRs
- RILA Nonforfeiture Requirements
August
- What if Mortality Stops Improving? Introducing a Product Idea that Shares the Risks and Benefits of Changes in Mortality Rates
- A Decade into Accelerated Underwriting: The New Normal for Advanced Risk Selection
June
- Actuarial Guideline XLIX (AG49): Past, Present and Future
- RILA GLWB Designs and Market Risk Analysis
February
- The Opportunity of a Lifetime
- RILA and VA GMxB U.S. Statutory Reporting Offsets: Implications to Pricing and In-force Management
- Product Matters! Looks Back
2022
November
- Results of Universal Life, Indexed Universal Life and Variable Universal Life Survey
- The Impact of AG 49 and AG 49-A on Indexed Universal Life Insurance Illustrations: Results from a Survey of 28 Insurers
- Registered Indexed Variable Universal Life: Is RIVUL the Next Big Thing in Life Insurance Products?
August
- The Rise of Registered Index Linked Annuity (RILA) products
- The Missing Piece of the New Underwriting Paradigm
- Confusing the Matrix: Actuarial Adaptations to a Well-Known Construct
June
- Accelerated Death Benefit Rider Financing Approaches
- Deferred Life Risks Are on the Menu of a Hungry Pension Risk Transfer Market
- 2020/2021 Life Insurance Pricing Methodology Survey
February
- Enhancing the Value of Critical Illness Insurance
- Term Life Insurance Survey Results
- Product Matters! Looks Back
2021
November
- Market Trends and Product Designs in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
- Embracing Inclusivity During the Product Development Process
- Accelerated Alternatives and the Need for Monitoring in the Wake of COVID-19
- Conservation of Mortality and Assumption Integrity
August
- Rethinking the Product Development Process to Fuel Insurers’ Growth
- Results of Universal Life, Indexed Universal Life, and Variable Universal Life Survey
- The Evolution of LTC/Life Combination Products
June
- Living Benefit Riders to Life Insurance Policies: Pricing Considerations and Strategy
- Professionalism in Your Modeling Career
- Innovation vs. Governance - Can They Coexist?
February
- What's in the "A" of AG 49-A
- Potential Impact of Non-Variable Annuity PBR on Fixed Indexed Annuity Pricing
- Recent Change to IRC § 7702 Interest Rates and Impact on Life Insurance Products
2020
2019
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2018
2017
Issue 108, November
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2016
Issue 105, November
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Issue 103, February
2015
Issue 93, October
Issue 92, June
Issue 91, February