Description: One of the first observations I made at my new job was that while the setting and characters were different, much of the story line was very similar.

Description: Conversation with a Past-President of the SOA.

Description: Read the October 2017 issued of Innovators & Entrepreneurs published by the Entrepreneurial And Innovation Section.

Description: A short summary of upcoming meeting sessions, webcasts, research, and other happenings from the marketing and distribution section.

Description: Summary of meeting sessions sponsored by the Marketing and Distribution Section at the 2016 SOA Life and Annuity Symposium

Description: Print a PDF of the full issue.

Description: A 2015 Society of Actuaries Report (co-sponsored by the Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section, and Committee on Life Insurance Research) entitled “Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Reinsurers,” is available on the Society of Actuaries website (www.soa.org). It covers a wide range of living benefit riders with medically-related triggers on life or annuity products. This article is largely derived from that report, covering several of those riders. In order to add to the marketing implications of these plans, Claude Thau, in his capacity as President of Thau, Inc. has provided additional commentary from the perspective of a marketer who is active in this field.

Description: One of the most vibrant and fastest-growing insurance market niches worldwide is the market for high-face-amount universal life (UL) insurance products.

Description: Innovation has become a fashionable concept, but what does it really mean? Are the concepts of innovation and invention synonyms? Is innovation a good thing? If so, why so many oppose it? If we want to become innovators, what considerations should be kept in mind? Are there examples of innovative thought in the actuarial field? If so, can you think of some of them? If you want answers to these questions please read Jay Jaffe’s article, Becoming a More Effective Innovator. Innovation is a big idea in the business education, so much so that many MBA programs are including courses on the subject, so much so that, as we know, our Section is called Entrepreneurial & Innovation.

Description: The article is a aggregations of perspectives on whether an FSA should also pursue their MBA.