Description: Speaker forecasts the future for actuaries at the coming millennium. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Discusses views and findings regarding the U.K.'s investment-linked, life assurance and regulations pertinent to issuers of such contracts.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting addresses the changing role of the consulting actuary and the opportunities, problems, and rewards of becoming more heavily involved in the marketing of services and/or the management of a practice area. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: Author lays out his rationale for the development of a Strategic Plan for the Society of Actuaries, intended to both establish the future direction of the profession and preserve the value of the role of the actuary.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting discusses existing and suggested life insurance products - adjustable life - which adjust to changes in need for coverage and changes in ability to pay. It compares adjustable life to universal life.

Description: This presentation was made at the SOA 1975 New York Spring Meeting. It discussed new individual product developments designed to meet the conditions in today's market. This would include underwriting, administrative, and technical problems on such new products as life cycle policies, low cost life, index-linked policies, or policies with special cash values 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.2

Description: This is a discussion on the future profit outlook for non-participating life insurance. It highlights the historic trends in profitability how these trends will be different in the future what can be done to protect future profitability and the prospect for non-participating life insurance in an inflationary environment.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the future of nontraditional actuarial practice in the year 2000 including the areas and external factors creating these jobs and the education, experience and preparation that the actuary will need.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 3. This article discusses how the advantages of the General Agency system which existed prior to the 1970s have diminished materially. Therefore, European companies should be very cautious with any attempts to emulate the North American-type agency distribution system of the late 1980s.