Description: This is a research project discussing on the needs and opportunities of the older age market to be used in the development and distribution of products that will protect future retirees from financial risk.

Description: Discussion from a marketing perspective of life insurance product development arising from such topics as: the effect of Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 on estate and gift tax planning, and on IRA and Keogh plans, an update on retired life reserves, and the types of sales presentations and marketing methods used to illustrate the operation and tax effect of these products.

Description: This document contains material excerpted from a speech given on June 17, 1997 by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Singapore. It focuses on the life insurance industry around the world and some of the forces driving change and their implications.

Description: This panel from the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs discussed the diversification of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Recent experience in the acquisitions, diversification and corporate structure of life insurance companies. 2. Factors causing companies to change the forms of their operations. 3. Process for life insurance companies deciding on their paths. 4. Impact of a change in production, marketing, profitability, administration, and management of our industry and our profession. 5. Expected evolution of these developments in the 1980's and beyond.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.

Description: This presentation, session number 86PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. “Banks are buying life insurers, life insurers are marketing through banks, mutual fund companies are taking over the retirement product area, and insurers are acquiring thrifts. Diverse sectors of the financial services industry are melding together at increasingly rapid rates.” The panel discusses the major issues and trends surrounding the growing consolidation and convergence. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean strategies to acquiring business by life insurers. Appendices are included.

Description: These are the appendices to a report summarizing the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing arrangements and mergers with non-insurance the financial institutions.