Description: This article examines the issues, trends and opportunities associated with life insurance distribution.

Description: Feature article about how life insurance companies can manage the financial risk of life and annuity unclaimed property.

Description: Diagram displaying the relationships between the various annuity certain functions.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: This article derives a recursion formula for determining life contingent annuity payments, and explains how it lends itself to use in computer programs.

Description: This article is about how technology and the internet is changing the way insurance is marketed and sold.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries held a panel discussion on product innovation at its June 1981 meeting. This article consists of edited excerpts from a document that was distributed in advance to stimulate discussion, and some remarks on the discussion that took place. This article discusses some of the products developed in response to the current high and volatile interest rate environment, such as flexible premium policies annuities and insurance and adjustable single premium policies.

Description: The Society’s Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation was formed in 1980 at NAIC request because the margins in the 1971 IAM Table had eroded. This article describes the development of the 1983 Table a and shows how well the 1973 Experience Table fits the underlying data.

Description: The article is an editorial on annuitant mortality over sixty years, 1923, 1943, 1963 and 1983.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 7. This article describes the state of the insurance market in Japan in 1988. While traditional permanent policies abound, a variable life product was introduced in 1986.