Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. The stated objective of this session was to provide a good feel of what financial service convergence means. It included a legislative update of what was happening in Washington in 1999 and discussions on customer segmentation, on bancassurance products, and distribution channels within a bank.

Description: Panel discusses several approaches to life and annuity product distribution in the U.S., and looks at the life insurance industry in four other countries. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 71 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss how banks have entered the insurance markets in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and continental Europe. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session was about the Latin-American insurance market. Topics included: 1. Size, growth, regulations, products, distribution, marketing. 2. Market entry, business strategies, cultural issues, local staffing. 3. Level of activity for U.S. companies.

Description: Head of a full-service wholesaling company discusses marketing insurance products through stock brokerage firms, banks, and broker-dealers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 59OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The life insurance and annuity marketplace has become increasingly competitive. At the same time, distributors are exerting more clout. The panelists discuss their perspectives, from the view of the product development actuary, the marketing and distribution executive, and the actuary in a marketing role, on how product development actuaries are experiencing difficulty in designing profitable products that are saleable. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Presented at the April 1985 Spring Meeting. More agents are becoming independent. Discussion covers how to support and do more for them, and their impact on product design.

Description: This 1980 session was about the various distribution systems, trends in market share, relative costs, differences, major advantages and disadvantages of each, and the way in which these systems will be affected by change.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about financial service business: Who's selling what? Topics included: 1. Growth of fixed annuities as sold through banks and thrifts, stockbrokers, and other nontraditional sources. 2. What is the current of variable life and annuity products in the financial services business? 3. What does the future hold for variable products in financial services?

Description: This keynote address at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting looks at trends in sales, products, services and distribution for the life insurance industry.