Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about issues facing new companies including the areas of marketing, personnel, capital and surplus, financial projections, and communications.

Description: This paper uses operations research to develop the answer to a question concerning the optimal size of a debit, which is a defined geographical area for an agent to sell and service business as part of a 'combination company' operation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 57.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: participation in strain, United States or international structure, type of stock ownership and tax implications.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about improving the product development process, in particular, getting the proper product to the proper market as quickly as possible. Macro-pricing is explained and discussed.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting presents an overview of risk classification, what principles define a sound system, changes in underwriting due to expert system technology, and determining the value of laboratory tests.

Description: The presenters will share information about: -Insights into causes of death through the use of predictive models, based on a reinsured U.S. life portfolio, using logistic regression models to understand three main causes of death: cancer, heart and external causes; -Opioid abuse is a widespread phenomenon with drug-related mortality rates rising steeply in the U.S. over the past two decades. But what does the most recent data tell U.S. about the outlook for Opioid-related mortality?; -'Deaths of despair' have been publicized as a cause for the poor performance of U.S. mortality in recent years. The presenters will be looking at the different causes under this label, their evolution and explore the drivers behind them.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers in this session addressed the relative volatility of participating whole life versus universal life and the annual-premium versus single- premium basis.

Description: This session at the 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an overview of equity-indexed products. An in-depth look at product features and the functioning of the index within the product is offered.

Description: Discusses product experience and practices with regards to long term disability, the extent group underwriting practices are followed with groups of 5 to 25 lives, changes made in the provisions of group annuity and other insured pension plans to coordinate or otherwise recognize the newly legislated monthly disability benefits under the OASI program, and practices and experience with regards to high face amount life insurance.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.