Description: Discusses definition of life insurance, exchanges, policy loans, single premium life products, and variable life products. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: From session 63 PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Impact of Regulatory Uncertainty on Product Innovation. Impact of XXX on product design and reserves also discussed. These are Charts 1 & 2 from that session. See separate document for discussion from this presentation.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.

Description: This 1979 panel discussion focuses on Social Security and the possibility for future changes in such areas as financing, retirement age, benefit design, treatment of women, and retirement test.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of double-digit inflation on pension plans including the impact on assumptions, design, prefunding of post-retirement indexing and prefunding of flat benefit plans. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: Panelists discuss programs that provide retirement benefits for executives in the United States and Canada, including the pros and cons of available financing vehicles SERPs and the impact of governmental requirements and proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 114pd.

Description: From session 63 PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, Impact of Regulatory Uncertainty on Product Innovation. Also discussed is the impact of XXX on policy design and reserves. This is Charts 3 and 4 from that preentation. See separate document for narrative from the presentation.

Description: This session discusses the results of recent studies, one sponsored the Society of Actuaries, conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates and the Employee Benefits Research Institute EBRI and another conducted by Life Insurance Marketing and Research Asssociation LIMRA, focusing on public knowledge and attitudes with regard to post-retirement risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 9pd.

Description: This 1978 discussion session focuses on the impact on pension plan design due to: 1. The 1977 Amendments to the Social Security Act, 2. The Administration's proposal in regard to integration of private pension plan benefits with Social Security benefits, 3. The requirement to eliminate compulsory retirement prior to age 70, and 4. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, et al. v. Manhart, et al. which held that an employer violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it requires women to contribute more than men to a pension fund in order to receive the same level of benefits.

Description: This session provides attendees with information on the latest available retirement income products, advantages and disadvantages of each and the impact of the low interest rate environment on those products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 70pd.