Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session provides an overview of the various methods used to manage the risks from guarantees of equity-based life and annuity products. Discussion includes the use of reinsurance, self-insurance and static/dynamic hedging.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This discussion reviews the need for and a process for remediation of errors made with respect to an inadvertent non-egregious failure to comply with the modified endowment contract rules under Internal Revenue Code Section 7702A.

Description: Discussion on the future of permanent life insurance. The panel examines whether cash value life insurance will continue in light of uncertain economic future, double digit inflation, competitive term products, replacements, increasing policy loans, attractive alternative savings products and the consumerist/regulatory atmosphere. g. Consumerist and regulatory atmosphere? h. Possible changes in tax, nonforfeiture and valuation laws?

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: In session 51CS of the Maui I Spring Meeting the Panel describes what every actuary should know about mergers and acquisitions in the life and health insurance business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

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 1979 session is about Non-Smoker Policies. Topics covered: 1. What data are available? How significant are they? 2. What are the effects of cigarette smoking on health? 3. In what ways can people be educated to stop or not start smoking cigarettes? 4. What are the possible policy implications of the foregoing for the life and health insurance business? 5. For policies with nonsmoker discounts, what are the pricing implications with respect to: a. Nature of the discount -Should it be guaranteed? b. Effect on standard class pricing? Deficiency reserves? Reinsurance? c. Competitive impact? 6. The application form: Information needed, and how do you get it?

Description: From session 63 PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, panelists discuss current issues including adoption status and proposals for various regulations critical to product development efforts. Impact of XXX on product design and reserves is also discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Overview of latest developments on IRC Section 7702, IRC Section 848, market value adjusted contracts, companies in rehabilitation and Canadian issues including: • Part I income tax • Part IV capital tax

Description: Panelists discuss SEC and state regulatory developments, variable-market sales and distribution trends, profitability of variable products, and the variable insurance market from the broader perspective of the financial-services marketplace. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.