Description: Panel discussion from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Houston on the topic of the financial services industry and its response to inflation and deregulation. Topics included: 1. Industry reconfiguration, relative competitiveness of various segments of the industry. 2. New products and technological advance 3. Impacts on the life insurance industry. a. Bank marketing of insurance products b. Investment and bank products marketed by insurers

Description: This article gives a synopsis of a presentation about bancassurance around the world.

Description: This article looks at the attitudes of insurance companies toward using technology for assisting in sales and marketing of insurance.

Description: Managing Non-Life Insured Products Sold Through Auto Dealers Part II — Gap from NewsDirect Newsletter, October 2001, Issue No. 38.

Description: This article is a review of the book, Insurance Coverage for All...And How Insurers Can Afford To Provide It, by Maria Thomson. The book focuses on the lack of penetration by life insurance companies into the middle market noting the issues and providing suggested solutions.

Description: This is an article about telemarketing and regulations associated with it. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: In this article, we discuss the future of wearable technology in life insurance. Evidence from recent research shows that low levels of physical activity, as measured by steps per day indicate much higher mortality risk while higher levels of activity correspond with lower risk. The article shares insights of how insurers can use wearables to innovate by improving the customer journey, expanding insurability, engaging customers, promoting healthy lifestyles and improving risk assessment. Lastly, we discuss the challenges and considerations when using new data and technology to ensure success.

Description: This article is a summary of a session at the SOA 1997 Annual Meeting that focused on opportunities for selling insurance and annuities through banks.

Description: A convergence of forces has obsolesced virtually every element of the traditional paradigm of the U.S. life insurance business - the products sold, who sells them, and how they are sold. This article documents the decline in life insurance ownership and sales, and emerging trends - with the market being bifurcated into service intensive vs. commodity.

Description: This literature guide focuses on the distribution costs, especially the field compensation costs, that are incurred through the traditional general agency, branch office or brokerage structures for individual life, annuity and disability products.