Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session offers a retrospective and prospective look at the development of actuarial pricing models and technology tools.

Description: This 1978 session focused on individual insurance pricing theory which covered the pricing process: 1. definition of goals and marketing plan 2. establishment of actuarial assumptions 3. determination of prices 4. management of results

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers usage, sales methods, and design of COLI products and their many variations. Presenters will discuss market potential, distribution systems, risks, product features, pricing implications, and tax issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Discussion of LTC insurance product developments being spurred by recent demographic and regulatory trends, especially combination products such as LTC benefits with disability income, annuities, and life insurance. Several viable product styles are considered, along with the pros and cons of each.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the various factors to be considered in determining the interest margins for interest-sensitive life insurance, annuities and GICs, i.e. the difference in earned and credited rates including practical considerations. Valuing embedded options in assets and liabilities is also discussed.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: This is a discussion of universal life products. It includes: 1. Benefit structure including underwriting and reinsurance, values, and surplus requirements 2. Asset-liability matching 3. Taxes, expenses, and administration 4. Consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale 5. Marketing, sales compensation, and replacement questions Specifically it highlights the benefit structure asset-liability matching taxes, expenses and administration consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale and marketing, sales compensation and replacement questions.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session is about pricing life and VA products with untested new features in an uncertain environment.

Description: Discusses the importance of coordinating the trends in investment markets with product characteristics, investment strategies, and asset modeling. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session was about issues relating to term insurance including product design, pricing, compensation, and reserving issues.