Description: The author's comments on the future outlook for actuaries and the insurance industry. He poses many thought provoking questions about the future.

Description: This article shows excerpts, edited into Q&A format from FIASCO’s September 1983 front page interview with James C. H. Anderson, conducted in London last summer by this newsletter’s London Correspondent, Gary Chamberlin. The interview addresses Mr. Anderson's beliefs that drastic changes are necessary if the U.S. life insurance industry is to enjoy a fruitful survival into the next century.

Description: Editorial about life insurance replacements. Editor encourages all life actuaries to help find a solution to this problem.

Description: This article discusses the growing popularity of variable products and compares the product design and pricing of VUL and UL products.

Description: An article on kinder, gentler mergers and acquisitions. Life insurance company mergers and acquisitions are seeing a renewal of activity. Now, however, they are being handled with a new consciousness.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 6 presents the discussions of State Taxation which was presented at the October meeting of the Actuarial Club of the Pacific States.

Description: This article summarizes two significant reports on voluntary termination experience of individual policies that have recently appeared- one in Scotland, the other in the United States.

Description: This article discusses a paper entitled, “Looking at Canada in 1980.” The author of this article, editor of The Actuary, notes that the paper’s author, A. Peter Hardy, F.I.A., who had called upon his own experiences in Canada in 1976-79 to write it, provided a copy, excerpts from which are included in the discussion. Three of the areas Mr. Hardy addressed for comparison between Canada and UK practice are discussed in this article: taxation, guaranteed cash surrender values, and life insurance commission and the field force.

Description: This is an editorial covering questions about life insurance.