Description: This article discusses the proper slope of mortality tables, especially at the high attained ages.

Description: Recently the interest rates have been slowly trending up from the lowest point in August 2020. The focus of this article is on current market trends for long-duration products —including life insurance, annuities, and long-term care insurance —following an extended period of low interest rates, and lessons carriers can learn from similar historical periods of rising interest rates. Innovative and flexible product features will continue to be essential, as the current interest trend may not substantially increase insurers’ portfolio rates. When designing or modifying product features, insurers should consider profitability in a wide breadth of interest rate scenarios and be particularly mindful of the impact that crediting rates and asset durations will have on earnings.

Description: discussion of a new product idea for retirement planning which integrates a variety of needs estate death benefit, annuity income, disability income, etc. into one product

Description: Encourages readers to visit specified URL to read selected essays from “Life Insurance 2020 Foresight—A Call For Essays.

Description: Discusses Product Development Section activities at the upcoming SOA Annual Meeting in the fall.

Description: Product concepts that are born in one country often find their way to the other. This article discusses which products are the hot products in the United States and Canada, and what we can expect for future sales for these products.

Description: A look back over 20 years to see how product topics of the day have changed and remained the same.

Description: Product Development Section’s election results, and bio's of new members.

Description: Chairperson’s column describing activities the Product Development section has undertaken to date.

Description: Discusses the events of the inaugural Life and Annuity Symposium held May 17 and 18, 2010.