Description: The article is a aggregations of perspectives on whether an FSA should also pursue their MBA.

Description: A 2015 Society of Actuaries Report (co-sponsored by the Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section, and Committee on Life Insurance Research) entitled “Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Reinsurers,” is available on the Society of Actuaries website (www.soa.org). It covers a wide range of living benefit riders with medically-related triggers on life or annuity products. This article is largely derived from that report, covering several of those riders. In order to add to the marketing implications of these plans, Claude Thau, in his capacity as President of Thau, Inc. has provided additional commentary from the perspective of a marketer who is active in this field.

Description: Editor's column for the September 2016 issue of NewsDirect.

Description: I remember in my college years being forced to take marketing classes because the actuarial science major was attained through the business school at my university.

Description: This article describes how an organization which analyzes its problems will continue to find problems. An organization that does its best to understand what it does well will build on successes.

Description: One of the first observations I made at my new job was that while the setting and characters were different, much of the story line was very similar.

Description: Article describes how the author’s return to graduate school led to a new business venture.

Description: At the SOA Health Meeting that was held in Atlanta June 15-17, the Marketing and Distribution Section sponsored a session on New Trends in Critical Illness Insurance.

Description: Summary of meeting sessions sponsored by the Marketing and Distribution Section at the 2016 SOA Life and Annuity Symposium