Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This interactive presentation on variable products addressed life and annuity product design, pricing, distribution, and reserving issues.

Description: This article discusses the growing popularity of variable products and compares the product design and pricing of VUL and UL products.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Speakers from a bank, stockbrokerage and mutual fund company address, for their industry, the nature of customer contact, methods of distribution, investment management capabilities, the need for a level playing field, and potential cross-breeding of various industries.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at trends inthe design and development of individual life insurance plans.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Regional Meeting is about annuity product development and includes an overview of variable annuity products, fixed product designs, and marketing and distribution issues.

Description: In this article the author compares the profitability of Variable Life Insurance and Universal Life Insurance products. He concludes that a company can develop a typical VUL product with adequate profitability as compared to the company’s current UL product.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the key drivers of profitability and measuring performance and profitability of the agency distribution business, particularly the captive agency channel. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion examines a few prototype annuity designs and mainly focuses on a typical single premium deferred annuity 'SPDA', a flexible premium deferred annuity, and a variable annuity.

Description: A discussion of the 1998 changes to New York’s Expense Limitation Law

Description: Panelists discuss the profitability of single-premium deferred annuities [SPDAs], variable annuities [VAs], and equity-indexed annuities [EIAs] over the last few years. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.