Description: There are two key trends in the preneed and final expense insurance market, the first being small independently held preneed insurance companies presenting attractive acquisitional benefits and secondly, changing consumer attitudes may drive increased final expense activity in the future.

Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This article gives a synopsis of a presentation about bancassurance around the world.

Description: This article looks at the attitudes of insurance companies toward using technology for assisting in sales and marketing of insurance.

Description: Managing Non-Life Insured Products Sold Through Auto Dealers Part II — Gap from NewsDirect Newsletter, October 2001, Issue No. 38.

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: This is an article about telemarketing and regulations associated with it. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: This article reports on a session at an underwritering meeting in which the panel included an actuary, an underwriter and a marketer. Each presented his point of view about the status of the insurance business and the difficulties of increasing production.

Description: This is an appraisal of changes from a previous edition of the book, Actuarial Phases of Marketing Operations-Individual Life and Health, by the Society of Actuaries and LIMRA.