Description: Panelists discuss the history and background of agent-owned reinsurance companies [AOCs], their impact on attracting producers and improving experience, and applications for corporate distribution groups. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: For thousands of years the Silk Road encouraged trade and the transfer of things, ideas, and technology. Today trade and the transfer of ideas and technology between different peoples and countries, by whatever the means, is the successor to the historic Silk Road. To illustrate the operation of the New Silk Road, this paper will outline some of the steps involving the transfer of ideas and technology which enabled the creation of a new private insurance industry in post-Mao China. The article is useful in understanding the recent history of the Chinese insurance industry and how the transfer of technology aided the rapid development of the insurance industry in post-Mao China.

Description: This discussion of the Forum for Consulting Actuaries is about issues facing consulting actuaries including how well the SOA meets their needs, the future of consulting, problems that consultants face in practice, and guides to professional conduct.

Description: The panel discussed US federal income taxes, addressing parts of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility Act of 1982- TEFRA- related to life insurance company taxes and policy owner aspects that are involved. Discussion of the repeal of existing tax law provisions relating to certain reinsurance transactions is also discussed

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about issues facing new companies including the areas of marketing, personnel, capital and surplus, financial projections, and communications.