Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion talks about what will separate the winners from the losers in our business in the future and briefly about what might affect product development actuaries.

Description: This discussion note for many sessions at the 1980 Spring Meeting defines the theme of the meeting and sets the objectives under three scenarios. Objectives: 1. Recognize and reflect the basic concepts of futurism. 2. Identify the general direction of individual life and annuity business. 3. Paint a picture of what our business will look like by the end of the decade. Scenarios: 1. High inflation scenario 2. Incentive and investment scenario 3. Social democracy scenario

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Single premium deferred annuity, Flexible premium annuity, Universal life, Vanishing premium life, Indexed products, Variable products, Reinsurance.

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: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses managing risks via product design and investment strategy, and overview of the market and the risks.

Description: State insurance department actuary, who also is on two committees of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], discusses current NAIC activities regarding nonforfeiture, sales illustrations, and replacements for life products and sales illustrations for annuities, as well as equity-indexed annuities [EIAs]. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.