Description: Summary of Part II of the survey of Appointed Actuaries, sponsored by the American Academy of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Financia1 Reporting and the Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Section, which asked appointed actuary various questions on methodology and assumptions employed for asset adequacy testing.

Description: Discusses the current trends in international marketing, separately for Europe and Asia, and the product-pricing and international-reinsurance considerations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This article discusses the bancassurance sales model in England.

Description: A helpful guide on how and why to start a business.

Description: Full version of NewsDirect Newsletter, Summer 2001, Issue No. 37.

Description: Article reporting the results of interviews/surveys on the level of success companies were having with automated life underwriting.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists, noting that “joint ventures are becoming more and more common as companies enter the increasingly competitive marketplace of the 1990s,” explore reasons to use joint ventures and how reinsurance accomplishes desired goals, and discuss advantages over other possible solutions. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: Panelists focus on how the confluence of cost-effective distribution, rapid new-business processing and products tailored for the middle-income market can lead to profitable sales of smaller policies and expanded mid-market penetration. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 123PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of how products and services are tailored for in-bank insurance sales. Particular emphasis is placed on the middle-income market. Particular issues include product design, underwriting, policy issue, sales support, and field and customer access to the home office for service.

Description: This is an article that has excerpts from each of the four winning papers of a contest sponsored by the Society of Actuaries on the subject of visions of the life insurance industry in 2020.