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: 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: A basic principle of marketing suggests that using the preferred medium a consumer knows and trusts will have a direct impact on the way they make purchases and how one could—and should—sell to and interact with them.

Description: Print a PDF of the full issue.

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

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

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

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

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: This article talks about how actuaries have the potential to make a significant contribution across a range of roles and industries in which they have not previously been involved.