Description: Discusses the importance of coordinating the trends in investment markets with product characteristics, investment strategies, and asset modeling. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: discussion of a LIMRA survey on the quantity and types of recent product development efforts of life insurance companies and the considerations driving these efforts

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The five speakers discuss product development trends for five different types of individual life insurance products: universal life, traditional life, term insurance, variable life, and multiple life plans. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: Feature article describing the events of the recent 2012 ReFocus meeting.

Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the recent activities of the SOA’s Reinsurance Section.

Description: In our rapidly changing world, it is becoming hopeless to try to arrive at a satisfying description of future conditions, even in the short run. Yet prices for new life insurance must somehow reflect one’s view of events even in the far distant future. futurism

Description: Feature article describing a simple and ready solution that allows a hedging program to operate effectively without risk of mismatch due to mortality fluctuations.