Description: Discusses reduction in bank loan and minimum deposit business, sales of a combination of single premium immediate annuities with life policies on a guaranteed issue basis, likely results of recent court decisions regarding allowing interest on indebtedness as a tax deduction, and professional development needs for actuaries taking on management roles.

Description: Examines the extent of practicality for smaller companies to follow the action of some of the larger companies in offering new policy forms and riders such as, Guaranteed Insurability Option on birth of a child, Educational Plans, Father-Son Policies, and Life and Health insurance protection for future children. Also discusses conservation efforts.

Description: This discussion explores lapse experience on business financed at or near issue through policy or bank loans, the amount such financed business is increasing or decreasing, and the extent the exercise of the Fifth Dividend Option in practice is being confined to policyholders interested in minimum deposit policies.

Description: This is a discussion about agency compensation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This is a discussion about various underwriting issues including broadening the standard class at younger ages, overinsurance, mortality experience on guaranteed and automatic issue and taking smoking habits into account in underwriting life insurance risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion looks at the advantages to an inclusion of a temporary war clause in all policies, factors affecting premiums for females, the SOA's stance on accident and health research, and the proposed new form of U.S. annual statements.

Description: This covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1975 and 1976 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1971 and 1976 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This paper describes methods adapted to the computer for calculating premiums and nonforfeiture values separately for each policy at its original issue and for as many changes in the policy as may be made later. It also discusses current insurance law, underwriting, substandard issues, dividends and sales illustrations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: This paper contains three discussions. The first is about recent developments in health insurance programs in the United States and Canada. The second discussion is about the Society and how it can provide services to its members and the public. The third discussion is on life insurance company management. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50 AB

Description: This is a discussion about agency matters such as: new agents, experienced agents, general agents and managers, agent survival rates, etc. Also discussed is the impact that Medicare will have on private health insurance business. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18 Pt. 2, No. 50.