Description: This article outlines and summarizes research from Swiss Re about the prevalence of the Health Protection Gap throughout Asia, with a particular focus on China. Authors Robert Burr and David Zhang share key statistics on the scope of the gap, which is more than 800Bn USD in China alone, and discuss the role that technology and private-public partnership can play in reducing this gap over time. Readers will come away with an understanding of the scale of the problem within the Asia region as well as new ideas on how to solve similar problems within their own region.

Description: Highlights of the Marketing and Distribution Section's survey, conducted during early fall of 2007. Survey questions could be categorized into five areas. There was a group of questions that captured the demographics of who answered the survey and their overall awareness of our section and involvement with our section. From News Direct, January 2007, Issue No. 57.

Description: Article from the NewsDirect Newsletter on the 2008 meeting sessions.

Description: This article describes how Transamerica built internet based technology to support term sales through a mutual fund company and demonstrates the sales support value of the internet for an insurance company.

Description: This article is a summary of interviews that were conducted with independent life insurance agents earlier this summer that describes their thoughts on the changes, challenges, and outlooks on selling life insurance during the COVID pandemic.