Description: Provides an overview of India's insurance market and the important role of the actuary.

Description: Continuing a line which started in Vienna as far back as 1927, COINTRA an acronym for “Cooperation Internationale pour les Assurances des Risclues Aggraves” held its 14th conference in Stockholm from 9th to 12th June, 1981. Some 110 representatives from life assurance and reassurance companies, established in more than a dozen countries, were in attendance for the purpose of exchanging information and reviewing developments in substandard life assurance.

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: Article Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch by Bartlett in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article discusses the activities and goals of the Product Development Section of the SOA. Future activities will include joint sessions with other sections since product development issues sometimes relate to financial reporting. reinsurance, investments and nontraditional marketing.

Description: Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue No. 2 of The Record of the Society of Actuaries. These records were taken from the New York meeting, April 17-18, 1975.

Description: The author's comments on the future outlook for actuaries and the insurance industry. He poses many thought provoking questions about the future.

Description: This article is a detailed historical chronicle circa 1870 of a dispute concerning dividend distribution that was to draw into the fray university professors, a future justice of the Supreme Court, the Massachusetts insurance commissioner, and the daily press.

Description: The NALC has been working with their members and the members of the Small Policy Consortium. The Consortium members met with regulators to discuss the NALC's concerns with the activities of the NAIC in connection with small life insurance policies. This article outlines those concerns.