Description: This paper estimates the acquisition and maintenance costs associated with life policies as a function of the amount of insurance and number of policies of an insurer by estimating a cost function for our sample of insurers.

Description: This paper sets the task of pricing insurance products in the larger framework of company planning and management. A generalized description of the pricing function, applicable to any insurance company project.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about improving the product development process, in particular, getting the proper product to the proper market as quickly as possible. Macro-pricing is explained and discussed.

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 article compares computing a single premium for a decreasing term policy using continuous functions versus curtate functions.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22 , No. 7. This articles explores the dangers posed by many guaranteed-return life insurance and annuity products.

Description: This article discusses an update to a survey that focuses on how companies are trying to price for and understand the risks inherent in the products they sell.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet with some data pertaining to an article of the same name from the Product Development News

Description: This session from the 1995 Spring Meeting covers the design and development issues of 'Last to Die' policies, the applicability of reinsurance, capacity problems, and theoretical versus practical pricing considerations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting discusses the evolution of techniques in product development for life insurance with a focus on macropricing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.