Description: This is the second report, entitled Philosophies in the Computation and Dissemination of Dividend Illustrations, of the Society’s Committee on Cost Comparison Methods and Related Issues. Like the first report The Actuary-March 1975, this was prepared at the request of the NAIC.

Description: In this era of high interest rates, business life insurance funded by individual level-premium life policies has become popular, even to the point of undertaking to compete with group insurance plans. The author discusses tests that a sound and adequate proposal has been made.

Description: This session is about the impact of the 1992 Single Europe Act on life insurance in the European market. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1

Description: Discusses the purpose, membership, and many activities of the Non-Traditional Marketing Section, which was formed in 1984.

Description: Article Editorial by Moorhead in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: Proposes ways in which the credibility of permanent life insurance can be restored after the damage it has suffered due to insurance proposals, or illustrations, with unrealistic projections of future earnings.

Description: Among the most outspoken of the life insurance industry’s authorities is Ronald Butkiewicz, president and CEO, Irish Life of North America ILONA. In speeches to industry groups, including a 1995 presentation to the Actuarial Society of Greater New York, Butkiewicz makes the challenging statement, 'American society doesn’t need the life insurance industry. I am also quick to add that I don’t think American society needs banks, either.' However, said Butkiewicz in an interview for this article, 'It does need our products.' The article goes on to explain how Butkiewicz sees life insurance becoming part of one, big financial services industry.

Description: This article is about how technology and the internet is changing the way insurance is marketed and sold.

Description: Article from The Actuary, February 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 2 talks about as deregulation has lurched forward, banks and thrifts as well as insurance agencies and marketing organizations have been examining the viability of joint ventures involving the sale of insurance through depository institutions.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: Independent brokerage agencies have been the alternative distribution system of choice by life insurers using methods other than the career agency system to bring products to market.