Description: This article evaluates findings from a new LIMRA focus group consumer study that examined the decision-making process that consumers follow when buying life insurance including their use of direct channels, including direct mail, the internet and call centers.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: This article is a recap of the 2004 Insurance Direct Marketing Forum. From News Direct, January 2005, Issue No. 49.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey conducted in August and September of 2008 on foreign travel underwriting practices of direct writing companies.

Description: This article looks at trends in direct marketing with an emphasis on new technology for the internet and software for Straight Through Processing.

Description: This article examines the shared challenges for primary writers and reinsurance including the older population, marketing, admin expenses, and regulations. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 4

Description: In May of 2006 the Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee of the SOA surveyed both reinsurers and direct companies about their practices with respect to making business decisions in the underwriting process. This article highlights the comparison of the results of the two surveys.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss incorporating reinsurance costs into the pricing of their retail products. Panelists also discuss the different effects of various reinsurance arrangements.

Description: This article takes a look at direct response marketing the associated costs, and the tools necessary to start building a company’s presence in this developing market.