Description: This report is based on simplified issue [SI] products sold during 2004 but introduced before 2004. Twenty-seven companies responded, covering 48 products.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses how marketers are pushing the distribution frontiers of insurance and financial services: technology utilized, what is successful, product and service implications.

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Description: Task Force report on life insurance company sales illustration practices from the perspective of the consumer. The study analyzes how well current illustration practices serve their primary functions of: 1. showing the consumer their policy values and premium payments over time, and 2. projecting best estimates of future performance and providing cost and performance comparisons with other policies.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing arrangements and mergers with non-insurance the financial institutions.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 3, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in St. Louis June 16-17. In this presentation the panelists address life insurance company expenses. Analysis of expenses, including standards against which they are measured, and expense allocation are discussed. Inconsistencies in allocations for different purposes, e.g. statutory vs. GAAP, and pricing vs. financial reporting, as well as allocation of marketing expenses, are also discussed.

Description: Discusses underwriting classification trends, term vs. permanent mortality experience with and without medical exams, mortality and lapse experience of military personnel, factors in addition to insurability which should be taken into account by underwriters - such as lapse risk. Also discussed are health underwriting and underwriting expenses.

Description: This report documents the “Constructing Occupational -Specific Life Tables for China” project under the “China Research Topics” proposal.

Description: Recap of the Futurism Section Sessions held at the Spring Meetings in Las Vegas and San Diego.

Description: Discussion of the findings of a survey conducted by Deloitte Consulting on the experience insurers were having with automated underwriting. This survey was solicited by the Society of Actuaries' Marketing and Distribution Section Council, the Product Development Section Council and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.