Description: This is the chairperson's corner detailing highlights of the year. From News Direct, June 2007, Issue No. 56.

Description: NewsDirect September 2015 Issue

Description: Full version of NewsDirect Newsletter, September 2003, Issue No. 44.

Description: This web page displays a listing of the Marketing and Distribution Section meetings, conference calls and meetings and events.

Description: This article describes New York Life's philosophy and approach to the use of the internet in selling life insurance.

Description: Bancassurance Session at March ICA Conference by Nancy Behrens from NewsDirect Newsletter, September 2002, Issue No. 41.

Description: Chairman’s Corner Are We Meeting the Goals of our Mission Statement? by Diane McGovern from NewsDirect Newsletter, January 2003, Issue No. 42.

Description: Full version of NewsDirect Newsletter, May 2002, Issue No. 40.

Description: This article presents the idea that a New Product Notebook, which contains all of the aspects of a product's development and is accessible to all involved, can make the product development process more efficient.

Description: A 2015 Society of Actuaries Report (co-sponsored by the Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section, and Committee on Life Insurance Research) entitled “Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Reinsurers,” is available on the Society of Actuaries website (www.soa.org). It covers a wide range of living benefit riders with medically-related triggers on life or annuity products. This article is largely derived from that report, covering several of those riders. In order to add to the marketing implications of these plans, Claude Thau, in his capacity as President of Thau, Inc. has provided additional commentary from the perspective of a marketer who is active in this field.