Description: Discover the benefits of building a shared business model during the Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers webcast. This is an educational event for the actuary interested in product and channel innovation, in addition to those wanting to understand how to juggle competitive incentives in the market. Representatives from Insurtechs, insurance carriers and reinsurers will discuss their distribution development and product capabilities for marketing insurance products on digital platforms, as well as their collaboration throughout the process.

Description: Successful Marketing and Selling to Baby-Boomer-and-Older Customers Twelve Recent Brain Research Discoveries Having Relevance to Successful Communications By James J. Gilmartin from Long-Term Care Newsletter, September 2004, Issue No. 12.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Article describes the concept of Rational Ignorance and suggests that recognizing this issue in the life insurance industry might assist in reducing the Protection Gap.

Description: Join us for the It Takes a Village: Insurance Product Development in the Digital webcast. Focuses will be directed toward a variety of disciplines within the actuarial science industry. We will also take a deep dive into UW, Technology Product and Marketing and Distribution. Don't miss the opportunity to bring digital insurance products to life and discover what the process of product evolution.

Description: The Life Meeting, is the result of combining the Life & Annuity Symposium (LAS) and the Valuation Actuarial Symposium (ValAct). The Life Meeting will offer sessions specific to pricing and valuation as well as sessions on emerging issues relevant to both groups. These common themes include InsurTech, diversity, accounting change and the current economic environment.

Description: Farewell memo from outgoing section chairperson to section members.

Description: July 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.

Description: This research report sponsored by the SOA's Marketing and Distribution Section gives valuable insights from leaders in the middle income life insurance market.

Description: Behavioral science reveals that consumers tend to assess risk emotionally, through perceptions rather than calculations. So, will COVID-19 change risk perceptions in the long term -- and similarly increase life insurance sales? Insurers should take nothing for granted