Description: This 1981 session focused on Life and Casualty Company Organization for the 1980's. Topics included: 1. The Emerging Managerial Environment 2. Emerging Strategies - What new strategies are called for, and how will goals change with respect Co: a. Profit? b. Surplus levels? c. Growth? 3. Emerging Organization - How should companies organize for the future? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing opportunities, marketing techniques, product selection and design.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion focuses on the NAIC model illustration regulation and the ASOP. Topics include: Adequacy of the model law, liability of the illustration actuary, and Generally Recognized Expense Table.

Description: This panel discussion examines marketing distribution systems, discussing the marketing problems and opportunities facing life insurers. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 3.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about financial service business: Who's selling what? Topics included: 1. Growth of fixed annuities as sold through banks and thrifts, stockbrokers, and other nontraditional sources. 2. What is the current of variable life and annuity products in the financial services business? 3. What does the future hold for variable products in financial services?

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discusses pricing and product design for sales via the internet from the standpoint of a traditional insurance company and from a totally internet-based company.

Description: Discussion from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando on the diversification of life insurance companies including recent experience in acquisitions, and changes in corporate structure of life insurance companies. This panel from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando 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.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discussed agency strategies for marketing success including compensation patterns, agency organization, product development and marketing techniques. From Record of the Actuaries Vol. 9, No.4

Description: In session 72OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss alternatives that companies are considering in the compensation area, including levelized commissions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This meeting session provided insight and information related to field compensation and the issues affecting the level of compensation including inflation, competition, and productivity.