Interest Rate – We Won’t Have To Pay It 2005 1117 – GOV (Senate) – A Review of the GAO Report on the Sale of Financial Products to Military Personnel, Richard Shelby (R-AL)  —  [BonkNote] (p21) – Paul SARBANES (D-MD). Is there not information from the companies, like internal memos and so forth, where they…

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SEC – Variable Life – 12% 1996 – NAIC – Variable Life Illustrations Subgroup of the Life Disclosure (A) Working Group – June 2, 1996 Mr. Morse reported that under the current rules, a personalized illustration may be prepared using 0% and 12%. The 12% includes the current morality and expenses and the 0% illustration…

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Interest Rate – Walker v LSW (p86) – Spooner Q Did you expect to get the approximately 9.6 interest rate shown in the current basis B values each and every year? A No, not each and every year. That was just the average over time. Q What did you expect that you would get? A…

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Interest Rate Guarantees Many insurance products offer minimum interest rate guarantees for the life of the contract. In fact, some of these guarantees are mandated by statutory nonforfeiture laws. Although guarantees of 3-5% were once considered minimus, the current low interest rate environment renders them problematic. This session will explore the product design,pricing and investment…

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Problem – Interest Rate Assumptions We believe current illustrated rates are much higher than what is reasonably expected over the course of the policy and may lead to consumer disappointment, which could negatively impact the entire industry. —  Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York Life Insurance Company and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 2014 0812…

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Search For Yield 2013 – FRB – Are the Fed’s low interest rate policies pushing investors toward risk? – 4p 81. AIG also chased higher yields by investing heavily in bonds of lengthy maturity As a consequence, AIG grossly mismatched the maturity dates of the collateral investments and the underlying securities loans, which rarely had…

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Interest – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# B Best Interest Standards Bulletin on Illustrated Interest Projections – NAIC Back to top I Insurable Interest Interest Interest Adjusted Method Interest Rate Interest Rate Guarantees Interest Rate Risk Interest Rate – Walker vs. LSW Interest Rate – We Won’t Have To Pay It Interest Sensitive Life Insurance Interest – Index…

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Interest Interest – Index (p9) – The literature attached to the conservation brochure read: “At Minnesota Mutual, we believe you should get an up-to-date return on your insurance dollars – no matter how long you’ve owned your policy. With Ultimate Interest™, our unique interest crediting method, we credit current, competitive interest rates to each premium…

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Insurable Interest The notion of insurable interest dates back to the Middle Ages and it was English common law until the Life Assurance Act of 1774. In that Act the Parliament of Great Britain sought to prevent the abuse of life insurance and differentiate  it from gambling or purely speculative behaviour. It specifically “prohibited the…

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4 Percent Chalke and Davlin point out that a policy that provides whole life benefits assuming 10 percent interest is not a whole life plan if the guaranteed cash value is only 4 percent. Such a plan is term insurance only for a period of years.  —  Thomas G. Kabele 1983 – SOA – Universal Life…

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