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  • Chairperson’s Corner: Election Time
    policy (or if you happened to be in an early primary/caucus state it may seem that the presidential ... the voters we serve—some will care most about the “price,” others care most about the long-term value ...

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    • Authors: John Currier
    • Date: Oct 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Annuities; Life Insurance
  • Product Matters! August 2002, Issue No. 53
    In order to meet competition, many companies (direct writers as well as reinsur- ers) have reduced profit ... at dolld@towers.com. Graph 2C O ne of the primary pricing measuresfor individual life insurance prod-ucts ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Colin M Ramsay, Wayne Stuenkel, Larry Warren, Mary J Bahna-Nolan
    • Date: Aug 2002
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Reflecting Risk In Pricing Survey
    annu- ity results from the report. In general, direct writers and reinsurance companies will be lumped ... PAGE 23 Product Matters! | JUNE 2011 | 25 Direct life and annuity writers that reported using sto- ...

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    • Authors: Donna Christine Megregian
    • Date: Jun 2011
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Product Matters! February 2008 Issue No. 70
    Section and our past focus had a lot to do with direct marketing, non-traditional products like credit ... policyholder behavior, protection products, long-term care combination products, and an overview of the market ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Feb 2008
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! November 2003, Issue No. 57
    this survey and another not-yet-released survey of direct companies (to see the handouts, go to the Web site ... This article summarizes some of the results. The direct company survey is a follow up to surveys conducted ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Douglas A Eckley, Larry M Gorski, Vincent Granieri, Sam Gutterman, David Simbro, David G Whittemore, Kevin J Howard, Novian Junus, Tracey Polsgrove, Van Beach
    • Date: Nov 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! July 2003, Issue No. 56
    accommodate them only as small ancillary benefits on a primary product. Life cycle products that start as life ... insurance and evolve into an annuity and then long-term care may be available. Products may have personally designed ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, William Carroll, James W Dallas, Douglas Doll, Thomas E Norton, W Howell Pugh, Robert Grotyohann, Douglas Robbins, Adrian R Pask, Jeremy Bill
    • Date: Jul 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters!, (November 2016)
    (i.e., mortality and lapse). It lays out the primary issues and describes potential modeling solutions ... accumulation and efficient distribution are the primary concerns of the buyer. Within this category are ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters, October 2010, Issue 78
    policy (or if you happened to be in an early primary/caucus state it may seem that the presidential ... the voters we serve—some will care most about the “price,” others care most about the long-term value ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Oct 2010
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Innovation vs. Governance - Can They Coexist?
    prolongs the development process and endangers the primary value proposition of innovation—being first to ... organization Does the insurer have a culture where the primary question is “why” things are done a certain way ...

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    • Authors: Paul Fedchak, Stacy Koron
    • Date: Jun 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance
  • What is In-Force Management?
    smell as sweet. —William Shakespeare1 I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce ... survey, with nearly two-thirds of those working for direct companies and three-fourths focused on life products ...

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    • Authors: Jennifer McGinnis
    • Date: Aug 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession