The session will begin with a review of the Delphi technique or method. The audience will then be asked to be the Delphi "panel of experts" and answer a series of questions about life and annuity products and product development using polling equipment. The aggregated responses will be shown to the audience, and questions will be repeated in rounds following the Delphi methodology. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will have a basic understanding of the Delphi technique and how to apply it and gain real time knowledge of the aggregate audience opinion about life and annuity products and product development.

Slides from a presentation at the Society of Actuaries 2007 Annual Meeting, held in October, 2007 in Washington, D.C. Discussion of the possible impacts of principle-based reserving on the reinsurance business: impact on both the ceding and assuming companies

This paper is a discussion of reinsurance in a life reinsurance agreement which was produced by the Treaty Committee of the Reinsurance Section of the Society of Actuaries in August, 1994.

This session provides a discussion of the development of dental insurance in Korea.

In today’s challenging environment, is your company considering all of the possible strategies to effectively manage its in-force block of business? In this session, the panelists will discuss how companies are addressing the management of their in-force book of business. Strategies to be covered include: • Retention efforts • Cross-selling • Up-selling. From the 2012 SOA Annual Meeting.

The latest underwriting “trend” involves predictive analytics. Predictive analytics means different things to different people and in fact, does encompass a variety of things. This session will define predictive analytics and discuss what is being done today as well as what is being considered for the future with respect to predictive analytics in underwriting. From the 2012 SOA Annual Meeting.

This session will cover the topic of reinsurance for small-to-medium-size insurance companies. Do

The emergence of principle-based reserve and capital requirements, as well as the development of more complex insurance products with embedded guarantees, has led to increasing scrutiny and importance of experience studies and assumption setting processes.

Proposes setting premiums such that inflation and age could change the premium over time, rather than prefunding. The value may be to change the approach to pricing LTC and improve the risk.

This session provides a discussion of the development of dental insurance in Korea.