Description: The author reviews trends in the advisor marketplace, a broader view than just traditional life insurance agents. He encourages life insurance companies to understand these trends to assure success in the future.

Description: This article discusses the use of product databases to increase response rates from direct mail campaigns. The concept includes renting name lists for a year, appending demographic information, and using a model to better target prospects.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia Regional Meeting looks at research on agency operations and actuarial involvement.

Description: Discusses markets, how they were affected over the years by changes in tax laws, plans of insurance, pre- and post-sale illustrations, underwriting, field compensation, and administration. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This article reports on a session at an underwritering meeting in which the panel included an actuary, an underwriter and a marketer. Each presented his point of view about the status of the insurance business and the difficulties of increasing production.

Description: This article gives a synopsis of a presentation about bancassurance around the world.

Description: This article looks at the attitudes of insurance companies toward using technology for assisting in sales and marketing of insurance.

Description: Managing Non-Life Insured Products Sold Through Auto Dealers Part II — Gap from NewsDirect Newsletter, October 2001, Issue No. 38.

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: This article is a summary of a session at the SOA 1997 Annual Meeting that focused on opportunities for selling insurance and annuities through banks.