Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the expenses in direct-response marketing, advertising compliance, risk selection techniques - unfair discrimination, agent supported regulation, use of telephone solicitors and direct response product design.

Description: This 1979 session is about the New Valuation Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance. Topics included: I. The Recommendation of Sex-distinct Tables 2. The Development of Basic Tables - Data Selection, Construction, Graduation 3. Margins and the Development of Loaded Tables 4. Implications for the Industry

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses current regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including smoker/non-smoker mortality tables, unisex legislation being considered and life insurance without guaranteed cash values. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews updates to federal taxation legislation relating to insurance including pensions and ERISA, 401k plans, employee benefit plan taxation and new code Section 7702. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: Discussion of leading edge companies. Topics included: 1. How they got there 2. Lessons to be learned 3. Financial reporting issues faced by actuaries and others involved with companies that have failed or are close to statutory insolvency 4. Turning it around- strategies for future success.

Description: Describes changes to California Insurance Code 10235.52, and details the remaining differences from Section 26 of the NAIC LTC Insurance Model Regulation.

Description: This articles notes that there are fewer small insurance companies. It discusses how the impact of mergers and acquisitions and new regulations affect the declining number of small insurance companies.

Description: An article recapping the SOA's participation in the NAIC Summer 2023 meeting.