Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings covered topics related to individual life and health insurance including health topics, individual life underwriting, reinsurance, individual policy pension fund expenses, tax sheltered annuities, and market testing products.

Description: This is a discussion about the issues smaller companies face with the 1958 CSO table and recent actions.

Description: Discusses the use of a valuation basis involving the use of two interest rates, which solves the deficiency reserve problem without requiring the abandonment of either low gross premiums or relatively high withdrawal values.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The Effect of Varying Interest Rates' by Charles H. Connelly, involving the use of two interest rates, varying by duration, for valuation.

Description: This discussion examines new products and marketing issues pertaining to individual life insurance. Topics include: A. Proper role for and impact of higher minimum amount and preferred risk policies. B. Changes made in recent years in the distribution of new issues by plan of insurance and mode of premium payment, C. Advantages and disadvantages of issuing to women a special life insurance policy, or class of policies, involving different basic assumptions from those used for other policies D. Plans marketing policies for which the insurance premiums are paid by 1 bank loans arranged with the assistance of the agent, 2 premium deposit plans, 3 bank drafts and postdated checks.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.

Description: These are the reports of the following committees: the Committee to Study Pension Plan Problems, the Committee to Study Pension Accounting, the Educations and Examination Committee, the Committee on Professional Conduct, the Committee on Status and Accreditation and a report on 'The Actuary'. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No 53.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 33, this ‘Digest of Informal Discussion’ took place at the 1960 Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Washington, D.C. March 24-25. This discussion on reinsurance covered retention limits for ordinary life insurance and loss ratio and catastrophe reinsurance.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting looks at research on agency operations and actuarial involvement.