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  • Product Matters! November 2003, Issue No. 57
    this survey and another not-yet-released survey of direct companies (to see the handouts, go to the Web site ... This article summarizes some of the results. The direct company survey is a follow up to surveys conducted ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Douglas A Eckley, Larry M Gorski, Vincent Granieri, Sam Gutterman, David Simbro, David G Whittemore, Kevin J Howard, Novian Junus, Tracey Polsgrove, Van Beach
    • Date: Nov 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! July 2003, Issue No. 56
    accommodate them only as small ancillary benefits on a primary product. Life cycle products that start as life ... insurance and evolve into an annuity and then long-term care may be available. Products may have personally designed ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, William Carroll, James W Dallas, Douglas Doll, Thomas E Norton, W Howell Pugh, Robert Grotyohann, Douglas Robbins, Adrian R Pask, Jeremy Bill
    • Date: Jul 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! February 2007, Issue No. 67
    They are proposing a short-term solu- tion to take care of the nonforfeiture changes needed in the regulations ... team play in pricing? Why should pricing actuaries care? In Canada, we have been pricing in a principles-based ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Jeffrey Beckley, Donna Claire, Sharon Giffen, Douglas Bennett, Brent Hamann, Kenneth Joyce, Ronora Stryker, Daniel Bret Cathcart, Dominique Lebel
    • Date: Feb 2007
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! November 2002, Issue No. 54
    products such as disability income or long term care. Under the acceler- ated rider, the policyholder ... market including individual, voluntary (worksite), direct response and group. Some products may offer a series ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Jay Jaffe, Michael Kaster, Daniel Theodore, Susan Kimball, Michael Taht, Mary J Bahna-Nolan, Andrew M Erman, John J Spina
    • Date: Nov 2002
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Development News, October 1998, Issue No. 47
    millennium to take advantage of changes in the health care system, tax reform, technological advances, and ... insurance – Reverse mortgages – CCRCs – Long-term care C Insights into senior marketing. This seminar ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, John Fenton, Douglas French, A Micheal McMahon, Mark Milton, David G Whittemore, Jonathan Hecht
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! April 2003, Issue No. 55
    reinsurers, who face many of the same pressures as direct writers, have found it necessary to withdraw from ... either the GMIB value or the contract value. A direct cost, or economic cost, of a GMIB is incurred ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Susan Saip, Michael Joseph Burns, Eric Carlson, Robert Ireland
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Why are Actuaries Going MaD?
    Why are Actuaries Going MaD? Recruitment article for the Marketing & Distribution Section ... Section and our past focus had a lot to do with direct marketing, non-traditional products like credit ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator
    • Date: Feb 2008
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Weathering the Interest Rate Storm
    Weathering the Interest Rate Storm A discussion about how insurance companies weathered the ... creates an opportunity for higher crediting. The primary focus currently remains on the stopgap 1.5 percent ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Susan Saip
    • Date: Nov 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Annuities>Fixed annuities
  • Notice 2004-61: Guidance on Mortality under IRC Section 7702
    Notice 2004-61: Guidance on Mortality under IRC Section 7702 Guidance and interpretation regarding ... made. However, Notice 2004-61 does not contain any direct statements identifying what such modifications ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Craig R Springfield
    • Date: Mar 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Product Matters! March 2005, Issue No. 61
    made. However, Notice 2004-61 does not contain any direct statements identifying what such modifications ... addition to the increased cost of reinsurance, direct writers are also concerned about reinsurer credit ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Abraham Gootzeit, Larry M Gorski, David E Neve, Michael Taht, Craig R Springfield, Feng Sun, Matthew Wininger
    • Date: Mar 2005
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!