Description: In session 133 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists explore the impact of pricing products from the perspective of the direct writing company and their reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session discussion is about competitive strategies in mass marketing for both direct response and payroll deduction marketing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about joint ventures and private labeling for life, annuity and disability products. In a primary variation of private labeling, a manufacturer develops, underwrites, administers, and does the actuarial functions, but the client company markets the product. Other variations of joint ventures have different distributions of duties.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 54PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. This session covers the impact of segmentation and underwriting on expected mortality and morbidity. Panelists discuss the importance of data mining and customer selection on ultimate experience, setting up direct marketing applications with the right type of questions to maximize responses but limit risk, the use of prescription drugs and other databases, and industry practices for obtaining customer information. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This is a discussion on the subject of simplified underwriting and guaranteed issue. This panel will explore 4 distinctly different guaranteed issue approaches the creation of underwriting pools for agencies and agents in the individual non-pension insurance sales area with respect to business insurance guaranteed issue mortality experience in the individual policy pension trust area how guaranteed issue underwriting is used in some direct-response marketing and finally, offering of additional insurance on a simplified underwriting basis for certain classes of existing policyholders.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers living benefit riders including benefit designs, regulatory activity, tax status, pricing considerations and reserves.

Description: This session discussion is about the long-term care and living benefit riders, early sales results, benefit structure, development of claim costs and regulatory and tax considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussion is about accelerated death benefit riders, current product structures, consumer response, state insurance department reactions, tax issues and anti-selection considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about Federal Income Tax, policy issues, single premium products, inside buildup and corporate owned life insurance. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.