Description: An introduction to the Product Development Section's new subgroup supporting interested in the practice of in force management.

Description: Welcome to reinsurance, where deals worth millions of dollars happen often with no more than minimal terms and conditions actually written down as agreed between the parties. This article discusses the concepts of contract finality.

Description: An interview with Joe Gilmour to share his views on the future innovations in underwriting that will help grow the individual life insurance business.

Description: The ideal business situations for securitization would be those where a company faces significant risks or has significant growth opportunities and where conventional sources of risk hedging or financing are not available or are too expensive. Ultimately, securitization should be able to provide hedging and/or financing that is more effective and less expensive than the alternatives.

Description: Corrections to page 23 of The Actuary December 2014/January2015

Description: This report presents findings from the 2013 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey, specifically those relating to retirement risks. It uses quotations from the series of focus groups where appropriate to illustrate the findings and addresses factors relating to the management of retirement risks.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about federal regulations versus state regulations. Topics included: 1. Status of Dingell/Metzenbaum bills and Industry response. 2. The McCarren-Ferguson Act, and recent developments in that area. 3. Bills that address the issue of redlining in insurance. 4. The Disclosure of Insurance Availability Information bill. 5. Heath care reform initiatives.

Description: Panelists discuss the importance of credit-worthiness to the customer of an insurance company, a brief history and description of the Standard & Poor's and Moody's rating systems, the efforts an insurance company goes through in obtaining ratings by outside agencies, the efforts required to maintain the ratings, and the importance of the ratings to the insurance company. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Newsletter of the Product Development Section.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! May 2006, Issue No. 65.