Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. This session covered the process of rapid product issue and the implications that has from a marketing, underwriting, operational, product pricing, and design standpoint.

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: This paper sets the task of pricing insurance products in the larger framework of company planning and management. A generalized description of the pricing function, applicable to any insurance company project.

Description: This article is a response to the article Current U.S. Ordinary Life Mortality by Doug Doll and Mike Jones. The author offers his interpretation of the mortality improvements observed between 1980-85 and 1983-88.

Description: This is an article about the “hardening” market for reinsurance on term and universal life with secondary guarantees. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: This panel discussion speculates about the coming decade. Panelists give their opinions on what might happen to mutual companies with respect to dividend distribution, level of premiums, surplus levels and inflation in general.

Description: This report examines mortality and other actuarial assumptions for products sold at older ages.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the role of the investment operation in the product development process, the process of managing an in-force block of business, and how the differences in Statutory and GAAP accounting affect the pricing process.

Description: Insurers are struggling to keep pace with rapidly changing economic conditions, customer needs and regulation. We at Oliver Wyman believe there is an opportunity for many insurers to generate more customer value and fuel their growth by rethinking their approach to Product Development.

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.