Description: In this session 14 PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting, the panel, including a member of the SOA Life Experience Committee, provides an update of the work currently being carried out by the SOA, contributions to SOA studies, and the development of the New Valuation Basic Mortality Table. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Annual Meeting discuss the results of two SOA research projects. One study looks at mortality rates as a function of lapse rates. The other study develops a model for relating mortality and lapse rates.

Description: This is a discussion of indexed coverages for individual contracts. It covers such topics as the history of indexed coverage in the U.S. and Canada and other countries and the possibilities for the ideal fully-indexed permanent life insurance and disability income plans.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.

Description: This discussion examines the changes made in underwriting limits and new business expenses, operational changes to improve the valuation process, the use of technology, and the effect of field sales offices also being a point of premium collection.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about AIDS from the reinsurer's point of view focusing on underwriting and the reinsurance market.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Digest of Smaller Company Forum’ presentation discusses the industry trend toward lower premium life insurance policies in Canada and the U.S. The presenters address the extent to which this trend is occurring at smaller companies, steps being taken to encourage sales of policies with larger investment element, and the effects if future legislation were to provide additional tax benefits to policyholders.

Description: Panelists, along with significant audience participation, discuss the proposed changes in tax law for life insurance [which became Section 7702A], company reactions [especially regarding in-force-dividend policy] to the dropping new-money yield rates available, the nascent long-term-care-insurance [LTCI] and accelerated death benefit [ADB] coverages, group universal life products [GULPs], leveraged corporate-owned life insurance [COLI], and the impact of the recent stock-market dip on variable universal life [VUL] sales. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the implications of UNISEX legislation and the Norris Decision, the impact of the proposed tax law, variable products and Large Amount Term Insurance persistency and mortality. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol.9, No. 4