Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting looks at the behind-the-scenes costs that are often missed when designing newer, more complex products. From The Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a variety of topics, such as the use of sampling techniques and quality control in actuarial work, and administrative measures taken to reduce expenses on small Ordinary policies. The discussion also looked at what the Society of Actuaries and local actuarial clubs should do, at the secondary school or college level, to increase the number of college graduates entering the actuarial field.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: The author describes why expense management is critical in the insurance industry, especially with a superabundance of inflation driven forces threatening the life insurance industry.Expenses need current and constant attention because a if ignored, a small expense problem will almost inevitably rise to major significance, and b expense control is a measure of the effectiveness of management in difficult times.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Smaller Company Forum, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. It summarizes the comments made by and identifies each individual contributing to the discussion. The discussion topics include measures a smaller company can take to reduce the expense of printing and preparing policy forms, at what stage in a company's growth is it advisable to shift from manual to machine accounting processes, and whether quality rating selection methods are achieving satisfactory results. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This article is an excerpt of a Society of Actuaries study note on acquisition expenses/selling expenses.

Description: This discussion focuses on methods used for classifying and analyzing expenses, and explores new accounting and office procedures. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This article describes some new attempts at comparing the expenses of companies as a whole and offers some preliminary interpretation of results. Volume 24, No. 4