Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Panelists focus on how the confluence of cost-effective distribution, rapid new-business processing and products tailored for the middle-income market can lead to profitable sales of smaller policies and expanded mid-market penetration. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 123PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Informal discussion of the role of life insurance in the national savings. Topics included: A. Life insurance company market share of the savings dollar. B. Impact of mutual fund investments on life insurance company sales. Types of marketing procedures used in the sale of life insurance in combination with mutual fund investments. C. Strategic desirability of variable life insurance policies as a means of recognizing the demand for equity investments. Statutory changes required before such policies can be marketed.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the adoption and implementation of a segmentation and market specialization strategy. Two examples of strategy for the Individual and Group lines of business are reviewed. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 1

Description: This panel from the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs discussed the diversification of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Recent experience in the acquisitions, diversification and corporate structure of life insurance companies. 2. Factors causing companies to change the forms of their operations. 3. Process for life insurance companies deciding on their paths. 4. Impact of a change in production, marketing, profitability, administration, and management of our industry and our profession. 5. Expected evolution of these developments in the 1980's and beyond.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discusses new forms of compensation that are being utilized, the impact on product design, and the impact on company profitability.

Description: Discusses arrangements of insurers to manufacture and administer products for other insurers or distributors. Includes reasons for it, service and financial arrangements, and risks. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: This is a discussion about insurance company equity products from the viewpoints of the actuary, the agent and the regulatory authority. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the new regulatory requirements, including the invention of an illustration actuary and what the job entails, and the tasks to be accomplished in achieving compliance.