Description: This is a discussion on individual life insurance market needs and product design under conditions of inflation. Specifically it highlights the needs and interests of potential customers during periods of inflation, what problems are created in traditional life insurance product design during inflation, what solutions are available to life insurance companies and what solutions may be available in the future.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the latest Exposure Draft of the Committee on Theory of Dividends and other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities and of other related developments in this area.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses growth models and strategies, the impact of investment oriented products for small company growth such as guaranteed investment contracts - GIC's, the use of reinsurance and asset safety vs. asset growth. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: Discusses manufacturing arrangements between insurers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addresed life and annuity sales illustrations. Topics included: • Current initiatives from various task forces including those of the AAA, NAIC, ACLI, NALU, and ASCLU. • Have illustrations taken on a life of their own? • What should be done about illustrations, especially by actuaries?

Description: Panelists, along with significant audience participation, discuss the proposed changes in tax law for life insurance [which became Section 7702A], company reactions [especially regarding in-force-dividend policy] to the dropping new-money yield rates available, the nascent long-term-care-insurance [LTCI] and accelerated death benefit [ADB] coverages, group universal life products [GULPs], leveraged corporate-owned life insurance [COLI], and the impact of the recent stock-market dip on variable universal life [VUL] sales. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about market developments, federal income tax outlook, investment strategy/crediting strategy, pricing considerations, valuation, nonforfeiture, and state filing considerations. Survivorship life also was discussed in the Q&A. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about product design and pricing of products with bonus features. Topics included: 1. The need for maximum long-term benefits. 2. Designs that maximize long-term benefits. 3. Reasons we should focus on benefits and not cash values. 4. Principles of equity behind bonus features. 5. A practical method to define equity. 6. A summary of current regulatory activity. 7. The definition of equity. 8. The need for cash values. 9. Reasons for considering maximum limits on non-guaranteed elements. 10. Disclosure of non-guaranteed elements. 11. Reserving practices.

Description: This session is about the practical and theoretical considerations in all-lines insurance operations, solvency of all-lines companies, and financial implications of all-lines operations, including investment of assets and Federal Income Tax.