Description: Recruitment article for the Marketing & Distribution Section written by the Section Chair.

Description: The Chairperson’s Corner focuses on how our section has evolved in communicating to its membership. Providing timely and pertinent research information is key, and we’re exploring communications through enhancements in our website, discussion forums on LinkedIn, and also producing podcasts.

Description: Feature article discussing management techniques of in-force business.

Description: Article from the Product Development News regarding comments from the past chair.

Description: The chairperson reviewed the accomplishments from the prior year and provided a preview of upcoming events.

Description: Election results for Product Development Section Council.

Description: Chairperson’s letter asking Section members to send in their thoughts.

Description: New Chairperson’s Corner

Description: On October 30, 2015, the SOA Assumption Development and Governance Group, an informal discussion group consisting of nearly 200 interested actuaries with topics pertaining to actuarial assumption development and governance, organized an industry discussion call on end-to-end assumption documentation practices. The purpose of this call was to generate a large list of ideas for best-practice assumption documentation. More than thirty companies were represented in the call, including direct insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. This article is the work product of the discussion written by Laurie Li and Alex Zaidlin.

Description: It's been one year since the Product Development Section Council approved the formation of a subgroup on in-force management. One year in, how are things going?