Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of market driven product development principles and processes.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the current status since the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, outlook for bank distribution of insurance products, and experiences with bank-insurer conglomerations.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss various topics and issues related to products marketed through the financial services industry, including the products sold and how they are distributed, the future of such marketing arrangements, whether banks and stockbrokers are a growth market, and the risks/returns to insurance companies. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists address a range of issues related to product development in life insurance companies.

Description: This 1980 session was about the various distribution systems, trends in market share, relative costs, differences, major advantages and disadvantages of each, and the way in which these systems will be affected by change.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the new regulatory requirements, including the invention of an illustration actuary and what the job entails, and the tasks to be accomplished in achieving compliance.

Description: Panelists, which include the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency [OCC], discuss the regulatory issues and market opportunities relating to insurance companies as providers and banks as the vendors of insurance products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. The panelists discussed the primary issues underlying market conduct concerns, as well as possible approaches to evaluating litigation from an actuarial and economists' perspective.

Description: Research managers from prominent non-traditional marketing companies discuss: Structure and composition of research units, methods currently used to conduct research, and specific examples of activities. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Head of a full-service wholesaling company discusses marketing insurance products through stock brokerage firms, banks, and broker-dealers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.