Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on activities related to deferred annuities including methods of reflecting fluctuating interest rates in amounts credited to contract-holders, recent product design innovations, and reserves.

Description: The insurance industry has a lot to learn from academia's missteps. With predictive analytics assuming an ever-expanding role in risk modeling, carriers would be well-served to establish practices that mitigate the creation of faulty models. Hear practical advice on how to mitigate the risks of overfitting, with a focus on how to translate complex policyholder behavior experience data for long-term products into behavioral models using company- and industry-level data.

Description: Summary of panel discussion which looked at the implications for life insurance companies of the increasing interest in equity forms of savings, as evidenced by the growth of mutual funds, employer sponsored employee thrift plans and the establishment of installment purchase plans for common stocks.

Description: This keynote address at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting discusses issues in the securites industry and points out parallels to the life insurance industry.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Regional Meeting is about annuity product development and includes an overview of variable annuity products, fixed product designs, and marketing and distribution issues.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting reviews investment products for the senior market, such as deferred and immediate annuities, mutual funds, and reverse mortgages. Discussion will include product design, pricing administration, regulation, and marketing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: In session 131 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the nature of derivatives and emerging practice with respect to the financial reporting for these instruments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting discusses the Exposure Draft of the Committee on Theory of Dividends and Other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities and of other related developments. It also contrasts participating policies to the new universal live and excess interest type products.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.