Description: This article looks at the attitudes of insurance companies toward using technology for assisting in sales and marketing of insurance.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Panelists discuss the primary risks of long-term-care insurance, reasons for reinsurance utilization, the variable forms of long-term-care reinsurance in today's market, and other forms of risk management.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on foreign travel underwriting practices of direct companies, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys - Foreign Travel [Direct Writer] Survey Subcommittee.

Description: This article is about real estate as an alternative source of return and income. From Risks and Rewards Newsletter, August 2006, Issue No. 48.

Description: Feature article featuring expert opinions on the future of health care

Description: This session discussion is about the new niches in direct response marketing such as new products, database marketing and relationship marketing. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This article is about the relationship of brand advertising to direct marketing and how to bridge the gap.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are research projects and reports that focus on health.

Description: This article describes some of the traditional profit measurement standards for direct marketing and then presents a more comprehensive and up-to-date foundation for insurance direct marketers and actuaries to use when reviewing individual direct marketing campaigns or total marketing programs.

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet showing Appendix C, Primary Tables of the 2008 Valuation Basic Report and Tables. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables and the Limited Underwriting tables. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.