Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the new methods of actuarial accounting and other methods in other countries: United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. Topics included: 1. An overview of the most significant overall trends being addressed worldwide in the area of life insurance accounting. 2. Australian trends. 3. Trends in the UK. 4. Trends in Mexico.

Description: Discusses pricing assumptions – including expenses, mortality, investments, persistency, and margin for adverse deviation – for various life products and other situations. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the impact of federal income-tax laws on policyholders, insurance companies, and product design and marketing. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: In session 56PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss financial product distribution systems used by noninsurance financial institutions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Panelists debate the pros and cons of revising our nonforfeiture laws for life insurance, with input from the audience. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about banks selling insurance around the world. Topics included: 1. Insurance sold through banks in the United States. 2. The bank assurance players in Australia and Southeast Asia, their business strategies, the market shares that they've obtained, the types of products they sell, and their distribution methods.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers the overall trends in the financial market place, the relationship between banks and insurance companies, joint ventures between them and the issues faced by these two distribution systems. From the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Full version of Product Development News, October 1998, Issue No. 47

Description: Panel discusses several approaches to life and annuity product distribution in the U.S., and looks at the life insurance industry in four other countries. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: As the pace of consolidation accelerates and competition increases, profitability pressures are intensifying. Life insurers must continually search for new ideas and techniques to gain marketplace advantage. An issue facing insurance organizations is who should develop and perform the customer profitability analysis. Perhaps the best people to address this issue are the actuaries. This article discusses four major issues actuaries must consider in defining an appropriate customer profitability metric.