Description: This discussion is on selected individual life topics such as: competitive pressures preferred risk/non-smoker policies and the impact of the field force on product design.

Description: This article addresses the expected impact that the 2001 CSO table will have on pricing and product structure for UL plans.

Description: This discussion at an SOA 1968 Regional Meeting covers premiuims and dividend determination methods for individual ordinary insurance, new product ideas such as nonsmoker policies, profit analysis methodologies, and methods for comparing products of different companies.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers premiuims and dividend determination methods for individual ordinary insurance, new product ideas such as nonsmoker policies, profit analysis methodologies, and methods for comparing products of different companies.

Description: Discusses how companies must ensure that significant and necessary product development, and administrative and compliance system changes, have been completed and tested in time to accommodate new requirements.

Description: This 1979 session is about current developments in Life products. Products discussed: 1. Adjustable life 2. Universal life 3. Indexed coverages 4. Term Insurance plus accumulation fund 5. Level Premium Term to 100 6. Revertible Term

Description: This panel discussion explores various pricing and profitability measures for individual life and health products and the effect of the company being stock or mutual.

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: The article summarizes results of a Milliman survey per the title. These products comprise about 40% of the total individual life market, and the survey covers a range of topics on these plans, which should be of interest to a large portion of the life industry.

Description: Since the last installment of the biennial WTW North America Life Insurance Pricing Methodology Survey in 2018, the market has been coming to terms with the prospect of “lower for even longer” interest rates and been confronted with the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines what effects these and market-specific factors have had on profit targets and pricing and reserving strategy. The survey looked at the profit objectives and assumptions used in pricing 2020 new issues of individual life and annuity products, with a focus on past practices, not future plans.