Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.

Description: This is the second article in a four–part series. In this article, the industry's products are examined.

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: Discusses views and findings regarding the U.K.'s investment-linked, life assurance and regulations pertinent to issuers of such contracts.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: The secretary of the SOA looks back over the last five years at changes in the life insurance business and the actuarial profession.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: Some life insurers in Canada are pioneering a creative new noncontractual approach to meeting the financial needs of terminally ill insureds who may need funds for medical and living expenses. Funds are made available by lending a portion of the death benefit to the terminally ill insured. This is a loan against future death proceeds it is independent of loans against any cash value, which would be used first.

Description: Discusses the different forms of guarantees that have been used in life insurance, and the various means of analyzing and establishing financial support to assure that these promises can be met.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about the growth in life insurance from 1970 -1990 as compared to the general economic growth.