Description: Topics cover: 1. Leased life insurance, wherein a policyholder assigns his insurance to a service company and then leases his coverage for a specified term by paying a level fee. The pros and cons, underwriting issues and volume of sales related to this practice is discussed. 2. Agent training and methods of agency support.

Description: This is a digest of of informal discussions recorded in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 27. Topics addressed: 1. Need for a new life valuation table. 2. Special policies such as Family Plans and Bank Loan and Split Dollar Plans. 3. Trends in agent compensation.

Description: Discussion of the results of the 2009 Group Life Market Survey conducted by JHA. This annual survey provides detailed analyses of sales and market growth, across Traditional/Basic and Voluntary products.

Description: The Society of Actuaries has recently issued a Request for Proposal to identify specific consumer profiles and the retirement income strategies appropriate to each profile.

Description: Hubert Mueller describes why unit-linked products are increasingly popular in Europe and provides his outlook for continued growth.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 3 provides the author's observation of the Interest Adjusted Method for illustrating policy costs.

Description: This is the second report, entitled Philosophies in the Computation and Dissemination of Dividend Illustrations, of the Society’s Committee on Cost Comparison Methods and Related Issues. Like the first report The Actuary-March 1975, this was prepared at the request of the NAIC.

Description: The NAIC's 'Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation,' which goes into effect on January 1, 1997, is largely a response to the perceived misrepresentations in life insurance illustrations, of which vanishing premiums is a notorious example. From an actuarial perspective, this state of affairs presents an interesting challenge. Rather than disallowing illustrations of risky contracts, why not develop an illustration for potential policyholders which adequately conveys the essence of these contracts and their probabilistic nature. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some preliminary observations related to the development of such illustrations.

Description: Advocates promoting the savings aspects of cash value life insurance products.

Description: Discusses the purpose, membership, and many activities of the Non-Traditional Marketing Section, which was formed in 1984.