Description: This panel discussion is about insurance organizations that combine Life and Casualty operations. It focused on: 1. Advantages and disadvantages of All-Lines Charters 2. Tax implications of adding the alternate line 3. Marketing implications 4. Capacity and surplus implications

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, National Service Life Insurance by William A. Poissant. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held, October 24-26, 1977 in Boston. The panelists discuss criticisms that have been made of life insurance companies' handling of dividend apportionment and dividend illustrations for individual life insurance and annuities. They discuss whether actuarial organizations should respond to these criticisms, and whether this can be done by formulating appropriate Guides to Professional Conduct and Opinions as to Professional Conduct. Specific dividend issues are discussed. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 3, No. 4.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting look at the product development process with a focus on improving the success rate for new products and process improvement strategies.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about regulatory aspects , administrative aspects, financial reporting issues, Canadian products.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addressed the problems unique to mutual companies. Topics addressed included: 1. In search of capital. 2. Merger/acquisition considerations. 3. The demutualization alternative. 4. Profit crunch. 5. Joint ventures. 6. Lessons from other countries - Canada, Mexico, Britain.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting discusses the Exposure Draft of the Committee on Theory of Dividends and Other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities and of other related developments. It also contrasts participating policies to the new universal live and excess interest type products.

Description: This session discussion is about Canadian perspective about pricing considerations, benefit design, reserving considerations and United States developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session provided an update of current topics relating to individual life insurance. Subjects included: 1. Whole life products with a focus on par products from the marketplace point of view. 2. Financial factors impacting whole life products. 3. Guideline XXX and its impact on level term products. 4. Variable life insurance.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on the implementation of the 1980 amendments to the Standard Valuation Law. Topics included:1. Status of Enactment, 2. Guidelines For Interpretation, 3. Model Regulations including indeterminate premium plans, indexed plans and universal life., and 4. Computer Specifications for reserves and nonforfeiture values using the 1980 CSO Tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 8, No. 4.