Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the most current information on issues in the regulatory area that impact individual life and annuity products.

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 panel discussion focuses on effective product management of life insurance. Areas addressed include definition of effective product management, internal organization required, establishment of objectives for a product line, coordination of company activities with respect to initial design, and monitoring.

Description: this session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses alternatives for illustrations and non-forfeiture values and considers current practices and proposals for life insurance and annuities in the US. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: In session 64PD of the New Orleans Life Spring Meeting Panelists discuss the current market for annuities and different product designs and features. Also covered the the effect of the standard non-forfeiture law on annuities.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting look at the product development process with a focus on improving the success rate for new products and process improvement strategies.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting discusses the Exposure Draft of the Committee on Theory of Dividends and Other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities and of other related developments. It also contrasts participating policies to the new universal live and excess interest type products.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists discuss product design issues for annuities, including “CD annuities,” which are like individual guaranteed investment contracts, traditional single premium deferred annuities, ‘SPDAs,’ two-tiered annuities, immediate annuities, and others. They also discuss tax developments, investment strategies, and reserve issues. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on the implementation of the 1980 amendments to the Standard Valuation Law. Topics included:1. Status of Enactment, 2. Guidelines For Interpretation, 3. Model Regulations including indeterminate premium plans, indexed plans and universal life., and 4. Computer Specifications for reserves and nonforfeiture values using the 1980 CSO Tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 8, No. 4.