Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discusses pricing and product design for sales via the internet from the standpoint of a traditional insurance company and from a totally internet-based company.

Description: This paper uses operations research to develop the answer to a question concerning the optimal size of a debit, which is a defined geographical area for an agent to sell and service business as part of a 'combination company' operation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 57.

Description: This panel discussion examines marketing distribution systems, discussing the marketing problems and opportunities facing life insurers. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses the insurance product development environment in various international markets with emphasis on both current and future trends.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Considers many ways product distribution might evolve in the future. Discussion compares traditional forms in place today with some expected and even some unexpected forms of tomorrow. The impact of distribution on product development and design is also explored.

Description: This discussion at a Smaller Company Forum is about the challenges that smaller companies face in three areas - actuarial student recruiting and training, gross premium determination, and agency building.

Description: This panel discussion lookas at various marketing distribution systems for life insurance including structure, compensation, and profitability.

Description: Record of the Society of Actuaries: 1981 Vol.7 No. 1 This is a panel discussion session examining life insurance company organization and the emerging managerial environment, strategies and organization.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting looks at the considerations in designing field compensation plans including New York vs. non-New York issues and levelized commissions.

Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the complaints of life insurance consumers. The subjects include readability of contracts, risk classification methods, variety of product including the meaning of product names- what does the customer think he/she is buying or has bought, perceived lack of competition,