Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at bank ownership and control of insurance companies around the world. Focus is on cultural differences between banking and insurance, regulatory issues, distirubtion, and products.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.

Description: This document contains material excerpted from a speech given on June 17, 1997 by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Singapore. It focuses on the life insurance industry around the world and some of the forces driving change and their implications.

Description: This panel from the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs discussed the diversification of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Recent experience in the acquisitions, diversification and corporate structure of life insurance companies. 2. Factors causing companies to change the forms of their operations. 3. Process for life insurance companies deciding on their paths. 4. Impact of a change in production, marketing, profitability, administration, and management of our industry and our profession. 5. Expected evolution of these developments in the 1980's and beyond.

Description: In session 71 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss how banks have entered the insurance markets in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and continental Europe. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: A discussion of what life insurance distribution systems might look like in 1990- from the perspective of 1980- under a high inflation scenario. Included the following topics: I. Traditional agency distribution systems 1a. Which systems will survive the 1980s 1b. Anticipated changes in the traditional systems 2. New agency distribution systems 3. Direct response marketing 4. New methods of selling insurance

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about how the profitability of distribution systems are measured, differences in underwriting and mortality or lapse levels by distribution systems, the levels at which to measure profitability, should the profitability of individual producers be reviewed, the best ways to manage the financial aspects of different distribution, the effect of replacement or rollovers on distribution systems, and how the costs of distribution system development is handled.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about the marketing front, including demographic trends, impact on products, market research, market segments and distribution.

Description: This article discusses the results of a LIMRA survey about the use of the internet by life insurance and annuity consumers.

Description: The article offers a discussion about future products, distribution, insurance laws, and contracts. Some ideas might not be possible today, but it is offered as food for thought.