Description: This article is about the design and growth of the new variable life and annuity products.

Description: The embattled life insurance industry in Australia needs to come to terms with a new environment of heightened claims volumes, unprecedented losses, changing distribution models and even reduced benefits. Like the mythological phoenix that spectacularly regenerates from its ashes every century, Australia’s life insurance industry needs something special to rise from its ashes. Claims management innovation promises to give the necessary impetus for a market that is desperate for some good news, whilst laying the foundation for a claims revolution worldwide.

Description: It is worth the effort to obtain a pricing surface. It helps make an informed decision and facilitate the pricing conversation within and outside a company.

Description: This article addresses the issues of short-term volatility, the non-equivalency of traders and, how product development is being impacted by market consistency.

Description: Ways of closing the mortality protection gap, by leveraging some of the new technology, data and analytics to reduce the friction in the buying process.

Description: Author describes how he developed graduated policy-year withdrawal rates using crude withdrawal data that was available by calendar duration but that also was distorted by reporting lags.

Description: Discussion of LTC insurance product developments being spurred by recent demographic and regulatory trends, especially combination products such as LTC benefits with disability income, annuities, and life insurance. Several viable product styles are considered, along with the pros and cons of each.

Description: This 1978 session on individual life product development included discussion on: 1. Major revisions, reasons for change, innovative techniques, and problems. 2. New products and special considerations.

Description: This is a discussion of universal life products. It includes: 1. Benefit structure including underwriting and reinsurance, values, and surplus requirements 2. Asset-liability matching 3. Taxes, expenses, and administration 4. Consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale 5. Marketing, sales compensation, and replacement questions Specifically it highlights the benefit structure asset-liability matching taxes, expenses and administration consumer protection, including the company's obligations, at time of sale and marketing, sales compensation and replacement questions.

Description: This article delves into a new line of statistical thinking of the author, that may be useful for product development actuaries. The key concept is how product design can produce products that diversify quickly, meaning that the company can be confident of a profitable product line, based on fewer sales than might be true for other designs.