Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses how small companies may offer a portfolio that includes products typically offered only by larger companies, including forming joint ventures.

Description: Panelists discuss the impacts of adopting the 2001 CSO mortality table, including effects on reserves, cash values, premiums, maximum cost of insurance rates, and corporate and policy taxation. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 8PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1991 Toronto Spring Meeting give an overview of Regulation XXX including its effect on product design, proposed actuarial guidelines, 2001 CSO, X-factor analysis and reinsurance issues.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses new business developments which have led to a resurgence in term life sales and profitability.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses the regulatory environment, investment crossover opportunities, types of distribution alternatives, corporate culture obstacles, agency only versus risk sharing opportunities.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about techniques companies are using to maintain compatibility between investment practices and pricing assumptions for interest-sensitive products: Segregated assets, Use of options/futures, Asset/liability matching, Market value adjustments.

Description: Research managers from prominent non-traditional marketing companies discuss: Structure and composition of research units, methods currently used to conduct research, and specific examples of activities. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Discusses markets, how they were affected over the years by changes in tax laws, plans of insurance, pre- and post-sale illustrations, underwriting, field compensation, and administration. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the impact of federal income-tax laws on policyholders, insurance companies, and product design and marketing. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.