Description: This 1981 session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.

Description: This panel discussion is about the basic concepts of non-participating life products with non-guaranteed or ideterminate premiums. Various issues around pricing, product design, reserving, regulatory approval and taxes are discussed.

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on individual annuities especially non-qualified single premium and flexible premium annuities. Areas covered include marketing problems, product design, reasons for popularity, tax characteristics, SEC investigation and NAIC Model Reg.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting is a discussion looking at trends in annuity product design, disintermediation and intermediation - C-3 risk, structured settlements, marketing and agents' compensation, and investment strategies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss major pricing issues with immediate annuities: [1] mortality assumptions, including improvement projections and substandard risks, [2] investment strategy, [3] expenses, and [4] valuation. Also discussed separately is a description of structured settlements and special issues with marketing such products. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: Attendees gain exposure to various approaches for effective surplus management for health entities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 91

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses many types of individual annuity products including single premium - SPDA's, annual premium, and flexible premium deferred annuities and structured settlement plans.

Description: Discusses adjusting statutory earnings using the natural reserve method.

Description: This document summarizes the meeting of the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Design Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting of this section consisted of a report to members, role and purpose of the section, and an open discussion.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses current regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including smoker/non-smoker mortality tables, unisex legislation being considered and life insurance without guaranteed cash values. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3