Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting reviews individual annuities, specifically IRA sales by insurance companies, separate account options, the brokerage market, bail-out options, SPDA's and accounting issues.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews recent class action and other large legal actions against insurers, the current litigation law in Alabama and intellectual property law. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Presented at April 1985 April Meeting. This session discussed: Annuities, Non-participating life products, Participating life products, Variable products

Description: Discusses: [1] return-of-premium products, [2] dread-disease products, and [3] new product-development considerations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: A point of view article exploring whether actuaries can be considered “true” professionals.

Description: Review of The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, by prominent statistician David J. Hand.

Description: This session looked at techniques suitable, practical or useful in recognizing future improvement in mortality, the projected mortality vs. Actuary's Opinion and should valuation mortality tables be updated frequently.

Description: This article is a recap of the 2004 Insurance Direct Marketing Forum. From News Direct, January 2005, Issue No. 49.