Description: This article discusses Actuarial Guideline CCC and its impact on ROP Term.

Description: This 1979 session is about Non-Smoker Policies. Topics covered: 1. What data are available? How significant are they? 2. What are the effects of cigarette smoking on health? 3. In what ways can people be educated to stop or not start smoking cigarettes? 4. What are the possible policy implications of the foregoing for the life and health insurance business? 5. For policies with nonsmoker discounts, what are the pricing implications with respect to: a. Nature of the discount -Should it be guaranteed? b. Effect on standard class pricing? Deficiency reserves? Reinsurance? c. Competitive impact? 6. The application form: Information needed, and how do you get it?

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 Discussion of risk and pricing issues of particular concern with respect to life insurance and annuity products in times of relatively low interest rates

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about redetermination of 'Non-Guaranteed Pricing Elements Recommendations', actuarial responsibilities to the various publics relative to nonguaranteed pricing functions and brief status report on Interim Actuarial Standards Board 'IASB' including how this Committee's Exposure Draft affects the IASB.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the role of the investment operation in the product development process, the process of managing an in-force block of business, and how the differences in Statutory and GAAP accounting affect the pricing process.

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

Description: Traditional discounting is hazardous to corporate health unless, as this paper demonstrates, it is turned on its head and insurance managers adopt the methods of prudent bankers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: Relationship of IRR to ROI on a Level Term Life Insurance Policy

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on repricing the in-force book of business addressed ASB requirements, data gathering, assumption setting, modeling considerations, coordination with financial areas, par versus interest-sensitive products, and communicating results to management.

Description: The article looks back at the development of life protection product underwriting and pricing in UK. It describes the development in waves of change, looking at different drivers, e.g. consolidation of the life insurance industry, the role of technology as a driver for efficiency gains via electronic underwriting. Different levels of sophistication are being discussed and possible implications for the relationship between direct offices and reinsurers. This rather thought provoking article is based upon Munich research as well as market experience and ties in with a number of current topics as for example potential changes as a result of the Retail Distribution Review and the Gender Directive implementation.