Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses alternative retention/replacement strategies such as unilateral enhancements and bilateral updates, the impact of universal life, UL, as an internal replacement, the impact on policy loans and benefit increases and the reinsurers' position on replacements. From Record of the Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This paper explores how molecular biology, specifically epigenetics, may impact the life insurance industry, and considers the effects of utilizing epigenetic biomarkers for underwriting.

Description: Sponsored by the SOA's Product Development Section, Financial Reporting Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, this report examines the application of credibility theory in the Canadian life insurance industry.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has partnered with LIMRA and the American Council of Life Insurance (ACLI) to conduct a series of ‘sprint’ surveys on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its potential impacts on the U.S. life insurance industry. This report contains a summary of the results of the second survey on best practices in monitoring and modeling the potential impact of COVID-19 mortality on life insurance industry claims.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Research, the Product Development Section and the Financial Reporting Section, sponsored this study investigating how the Canadian life insurance industry is utilizing predictive modelling.

Description: The purpose of this endeavor was to undertake a research project on term conversion experience with a particular focus on conversion rates and mortality experience of term to permanent converted policies.

Description: This article is a detailed historical chronicle circa 1870 of a dispute concerning dividend distribution that was to draw into the fray university professors, a future justice of the Supreme Court, the Massachusetts insurance commissioner, and the daily press.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that provides a quantitative framework in which two risk management strategies are mathematically formulated.

Description: This is a discussion about agency matters such as: new agents, experienced agents, general agents and managers, agent survival rates, etc. Also discussed is the future of the Society of Actuaries with reference to its role in providing service to its members and to the public. From Transactions of 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 51.