Description: This article details the IRS' Revenue Ruling 2005-6. This ruling provides formal guidance on how to treat family term riders for purposes of the computational limit calculations in Internal Revenue Code IRC sections 7702 and 7702A i.e., calculations of net single premiums, guideline single premiums, guideline level premiums and 7-pay premiums. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: Two committees continue work on experience studies that will provide a basis for new valuation mortality tables. This is an article about preferred and preneed valuation and the activity of these two committees to date.

Description: Discusses Aug. 23, 2007, meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah, about principles-based approach for both reserves and risk-based capital, RBC.

Description: This article discusses regulatory proposals and developments at both the state and federal level that call for small insurer vigilance.

Description: A discussion of the events of the NAIC Summer National Meeting in Seattle.

Description: Article Description * An update on developments and activities of the Smaller Insurance Company Section, including webinars, research, and an international strategy.

Description: Update on new mortality tables in development - 2012 IAR, 2014 VBT, and SI/GI/Preneed

Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: The Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation states that the purpose of asset adequacy analysis is to certify that assets are adequate to cover reserves under “moderately adverse conditions.” This article discusses the determination of whether an interest yield scenario is moderately adverse or extreme.