Description: The author explores recent challenges for the fast-growing life insurance market in China and suggests possible strategies to help the industry rebound.

Description: This discussion examines new products and marketing issues pertaining to individual life insurance. Topics include: A. Proper role for and impact of higher minimum amount and preferred risk policies. B. Changes made in recent years in the distribution of new issues by plan of insurance and mode of premium payment, C. Advantages and disadvantages of issuing to women a special life insurance policy, or class of policies, involving different basic assumptions from those used for other policies D. Plans marketing policies for which the insurance premiums are paid by 1 bank loans arranged with the assistance of the agent, 2 premium deposit plans, 3 bank drafts and postdated checks.

Description: This is an informal discussion on legislative effects on compensation and compensation modifications and the issues resulting from the requirement to integrate agents' pension plans into Social Security. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: Part III of III Managing Non-Life-Insured Products Sold Through Auto Dealers covers Finance Reserve product

Description: Discussion of a survey of ceding life insurance companies dealing with what they desire from their reinsurers.

Description: Author conducts her own informal survey to see how quickly the services could deliver rate quotes and how much the quoted rates would vary.

Description: Applying behavioral-science and shared-value principles to insurance is a win-win proposition for both insurers and clients.

Description: This article explores the unique economic and behavioral considerations and challenges in reaching the millennial generation to help them address their life insurance protection needs.

Description: The title is the theme of the SOA spring meeting on April 14 - 15, 1980. The meeting will focus the effects of changing outside forces on product development, pricing and distribution systems. Possible sessions are discussed.

Description: Latin America has acquired an economically strategic importance in the process of globalization that it did not have a decade ago. The region has attracted significant attention and investment by the international insurance industry. This article explores some issues related to the growth in supply of insurance companies capacity, the relatively slower pace of growth in consumer demand for their products, and the factors that companies can identify in forming their strategies to achieve their objectives.