Description: The article summarizes two of the highest rated sessions sponsored by the Reinsurance Section during the 2013 SOA Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: This 1978 session focused on Individual Life Products in the Employee Market. Topics included: 1. What is the current status of the Section 79 market. 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept. 3. Trends in Deferred Compensation products. 4. Recent activity in the Key Person and Split Dollar markets.

Description: This 1978 session focused on individual insurance pricing theory which covered the pricing process: 1. definition of goals and marketing plan 2. establishment of actuarial assumptions 3. determination of prices 4. management of results

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. In this session the panelists discussed the new standard valuation law. Areas covered included: 1. Risk of legal liability? 2. Vagueness of actuarial standards? 3. Reliance on other company experts? 4. Consultants versus company actuary perspectives? 5. The science versus the art of the process?

Description: This is the third and final installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs. The article illustrates how traditional asset share calculations are not appropriate in this case.

Description: Update on Federal Tax Issues Under the 2001 CSO Mortality Tables

Description: Jumping Through the Hoops of XXX to Minimize Reserves on UL Secondary Guarantees by Jason A. Jump from Product Development News, August 2000, Issue No. 50.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2009 Policyholder Behavior in the Tail working group with respect to UL policies with Secondary Guarantees Survey.