Description: Discusses some of the industry dynamics driving change in the industry distribution and compensation systems, the general-agency/career-agent system at MassMutual, the branch-manager and PPGA-like systems at Penn Mutual, and New York's recent letter on agent-owned reinsurance companies. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting is about the rapid expansion of the internet, how to set up a web page, how insurance companies and actuaries are using the internet for marketing, and how the public makes use of the internet.

Description: This panel discussion lookas at various marketing distribution systems for life insurance including structure, compensation, and profitability.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This is Table 1 Product/Channel Directory that is associated with Building Bridges with Session 136IF: Building Bridges with Alternative Marketing Methods

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, covered information and opinions related to consumerist trends and their actuarial implications. Discussions included: the U.S. Senate's Consumer Information and Fairness Act, NAIC disclosures, entitlement, changing life styles, confidentiality, availability of coverages, and Canadian consumerist developments.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on aspects of multi-line insurance company operations focusing on the organization structure, the role and relationship with agents, and the role of actuaries in these organizations. These organizations offer products ranging from life to health to property and casualty.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panelists discuss distribution systems that are viable in the future with emphasis on the middle markets.

Description: Conceptual discussion of the financial crisis in our life insurance distribution systems including the cost of developing an agent, the retention of the agent and production/productivity of the agent and agent compensation issues

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.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discusses pricing and product design for sales via the internet from the standpoint of a traditional insurance company and from a totally internet-based company.