Description: This is a discussion of the paper, A Practical Method of Forecasting a Life Insurance Company's Gross Operating Earnings for the Current Year by J. Barrett Walker. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author discusses the advantages to management of preparing estimates of annual earnings early in the year, for planning and budgeting, deciding on changes to dividend scales, estimating earnings from interest, mortality, and expenses against expected, etc. The author lays out his method of forecasting based on gains and losses by source of earnings, using readily available data including various annual statement exhibits. The author notes that judgment is important as well as statistical analysis in making reasonable forecasts.

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meeting, Philadelphia. This discussion was about methods that have been used to provide for exposure to higher-than-normal limits of insurance on individual lives in employee groups. Also, mortality experience on group life business was discussed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962 Vol. 14. pt 2.

Description: This discussion on group insurance reviews approaches companies have adopted for selling, underwriting and administering group coverages for small employer groups. Considerations and techniques involved in establishing the larger maximum amounts of group life offered by many companies are also examined. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This general discussion focuses mainly on automatic premium loans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.