Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.

Description: The title is the theme of the SOA spring meeting on April 14 - 15, 1980. The meeting will focus the effects of changing outside forces on product development, pricing and distribution systems. Possible sessions are discussed.

Description: Summary of recent changes to IRS Section 7702 Interest Rates, and how it will impact the design of life insurance products in the future.

Description: This 1979 session is about current developments in Life products. Products discussed: 1. Adjustable life 2. Universal life 3. Indexed coverages 4. Term Insurance plus accumulation fund 5. Level Premium Term to 100 6. Revertible Term

Description: This session reviewed the distinctions and blurring of those distinctions between group and individual life insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided

Description: Results of survey conducted in July 2006 about the methods used by insurers to develop their pricing mortality assumptions for fully underwritten life insurance in the U.S. The objective was to understand how companies adjust base mortality tables and whether mortality improvement was assumed.

Description: This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Reports in Connection with Social Security Legislation 1975-77, 'Statement on Cost Comparisons of Individual Life Insurance Policies', by Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 'Investment Activities of Life Insurance Companies' from Huebner Foundation Lectures, 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma' by Johns, 'The Future of Social Security' by Munnell, 'Social Security - Today and Tomorrow' by Ball, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'The Crisis in Social Security - Problems and Prospects' by Boskin, 'A History of Interest Rates' by Homer, 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert Myers, 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Strain, '1978 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund...' by US Congress. Brief summaries of additional readings are also included.

Description: The article summarizes results of a Milliman survey per the title. These products comprise about 40% of the total individual life market, and the survey covers a range of topics on these plans, which should be of interest to a large portion of the life industry.

Description: This panel discussion explores various pricing and profitability measures for individual life and health products and the effect of the company being stock or mutual.

Description: This is an investigation of the persistance of individual life insurance risk mortality differentials by utilizing an approach inspired by online predicitve markets.