Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about product trends, state regulations, disclosure requirements and tax status. Topics included: 1. The development of the NAIC model regulation on accelerated benefits. 2. Some state-specific responses to accelerated benefit products. 3. The tax status of accelerated benefits. 4. ACLI comments regarding several shortcomings in the model regulation.

Description: Panel discussion gives the latest update on: Single Premium Whole Life, Single Premium Variable Life, Variable Universal Life, and Annuities. Includes current industry sales figures and distributions of variable-account assets for these products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussion is about the market potential, growth potential, distribution trends, and SEC oversight of variable life and variable annuity products.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about product design and pricing of products with bonus features. Topics included: 1. The need for maximum long-term benefits. 2. Designs that maximize long-term benefits. 3. Reasons we should focus on benefits and not cash values. 4. Principles of equity behind bonus features. 5. A practical method to define equity. 6. A summary of current regulatory activity. 7. The definition of equity. 8. The need for cash values. 9. Reasons for considering maximum limits on non-guaranteed elements. 10. Disclosure of non-guaranteed elements. 11. Reserving practices.

Description: This session discussion is about research on the financial implications of AIDS, particularly reserving and pricing implications, has been conducted by several major actuarial bodies. Their up-to-the-minute findings and recommendations will be presented at this meeting. We will then have an open discussion of these reports and also discuss what actions companies have already taken or plan to take. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: In session 119IF of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss small insurance companies in regard to consolidation trends, characteristics of candidates for merger or acquisition, and survival strategies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss SEC and state regulatory developments, variable-market sales and distribution trends, profitability of variable products, and the variable insurance market from the broader perspective of the financial-services marketplace. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss last-to-die and joint life insurance plans, noting their increasing popularity. The topics of discussion include plan design, regulatory issues, administration, tax issues, policy splitting provisions and the markets for these plans. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This meeting session from the April 1976 Washington DC Meeting is a discussion on the development of various corporate strategies, determination of priorities, and resource allocation.

Description: This session is about the philosophy and implications of investment income allocation for individual and group products, bases available for subdivision of investment income by line and within lines of business, applicability of new money rates to individual and group products, and regulatory restraints.