Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the recent activities of the SOA’s Reinsurance Section.

Description: This 1979 session is about Non-Smoker Policies. Topics covered: 1. What data are available? How significant are they? 2. What are the effects of cigarette smoking on health? 3. In what ways can people be educated to stop or not start smoking cigarettes? 4. What are the possible policy implications of the foregoing for the life and health insurance business? 5. For policies with nonsmoker discounts, what are the pricing implications with respect to: a. Nature of the discount -Should it be guaranteed? b. Effect on standard class pricing? Deficiency reserves? Reinsurance? c. Competitive impact? 6. The application form: Information needed, and how do you get it?

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers usage, sales methods, and design of COLI products and their many variations. Presenters will discuss market potential, distribution systems, risks, product features, pricing implications, and tax issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This 1978 session discussed ADJUSTABLE LIFE PRODUCTS including: 1. Problems encountered in the planning, development, implementation and maintenance stages. 2. Product-design features. 3. Strengths and limitations. 4. Administrative systems and procedures. 5. Pricing. 6. Nonforfeiture values and reserves. 7. Marketing. 8. Sales results.

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on Adjustable Life Products. Topics included: 1. Current status in marketplace. 2. Future expectations. 3. Product design. 4. Typical riders. 5. Strengths and weaknesses. 6. Administrative requirements.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: This is a discussion of indexed coverages for individual contracts. It covers such topics as the history of indexed coverage in the U.S. and Canada and other countries and the possibilities for the ideal fully-indexed permanent life insurance and disability income plans.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. This session covered the process of rapid product issue and the implications that has from a marketing, underwriting, operational, product pricing, and design standpoint.

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker

Description: This paper deals primarily with the actuarial aspects of a life insurance product providing complete flexibility in the pattern of premium payments- and benefits. This paper presented a framework around which a policy of the life-cycle family can be built. Discussion includes description of how the product might work, given the legal and operational constraints at the time. Also discussion of how compliance with the Standard Valuation Law and Standard Non forfeiture laws would be achieved. Followed by submitted discussions of the paper by various people