Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of risk management issues of particular relevance for e-commerce insurance products.

Description: This article describes some of the traditional profit measurement standards for direct marketing and then presents a more comprehensive and up-to-date foundation for insurance direct marketers and actuaries to use when reviewing individual direct marketing campaigns or total marketing programs.

Description: This article notes the available pulications from Hank George, an underwriting expert, that will help keep you up to date on the subject.

Description: Panelists discuss various aspects of lead generation, including database development and management, market segmentation, and marketing techniques. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004. Panel members from the sales and marketing disciplines discussed their best and worst experiences in bringing an innovative product to market and share insights on how to best develop a working relationship within the product development team.

Description: This article discusses customer lifetime value CLV programs for insurance companies and their benefits.

Description: This article is an overview of an SOA seminar on using predictive modeling and other quatitative approaches for evaluating direct marketing programs.

Description: Updating relevancy of accidental death insurance for seniors

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Discusses: [1] return-of-premium products, [2] dread-disease products, and [3] new product-development considerations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.