Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session on next-generation UL, the panelists explored 1999 product development issues relating to the general account/non-equity-indexed universal life product.

Description: This is the third and final installment of an article about using microeconomics and the concepts of embedded value to better manage and understand the profitability of direct marketing programs. The article illustrates how traditional asset share calculations are not appropriate in this case.

Description: This paper begins with an investigation of the conceptual profit model known as Anderson's formula, then it compares Anderson's formula with two alternative profit formulas and discusses some applications and limitations of each method. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This panel discussion is about expense assumptions in pricing. It focused on: 1. What were the historical approaches to expense loadings in premium rates of life and casualty lines? 2. What are the fundamental differences in life vs. casualty expense assumptions? 3. Current changes. 4. Future possibilities.

Description: In this session 31PD of the Palm Desert Spring Meeting panelists discuss current issues relating to joint and second-to-die insurance products, also known as joint survivor or survivorship insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presenting the customer a measurable value of life insurance that makes the advice process transparent to both the customer and adviser.

Description: This 1978 session focused on individual life product development. Topics included: 1. Policy loan rate considerations 2. Federal Income Tax considerations 3. Inflation recognition 4. Determining interest rate for nonforfeiture values and reserves 5. Reserve valuation method impact 6. Innovation in asset share techniques 7. State approvals and disapprovals 8. Disclosure 9. New products - Term insurance plus deposit funds, Contingent Life, Joint Life, Pension Trust, etc.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session is about pricing life and VA products with untested new features in an uncertain environment.

Description: This paper will use a sample example to examine the relationship between the pricing objective of ROI and the corporate profit measure of ROE. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: In a recent Society of Actuaries' regional meeting, there was a discussion on an age-old actuarial problem. Within the same company, should the return on equity ROE target vary by profit center depending upon the risk of the profit center? For example, should company management demand a different ROE from the Group Health line than from the Ordinary Life line?