Description: The paper summarizes results from two doctoral dissertations. The first discusses integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets. The second discusses modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance, including a provision for adverse deviation PAD.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.

Description: This is a study of irregularities in pulse beats detected by the electrocardiogram and the impact on mortality experience at one company. Followed by a discussion paper

Description: This panel discussion session looked at recent and proposed regulation of life insurance underwriting. Specific topics included: i. Problems with traditional underwriting classifications: privacy, disclosure, anti-discrimination, etc. 2. New and acceptable classifications: smoking, lifestyle, build, blood pressure, finances, etc. 3. Possible transition problems: existing policies, persistency, coordination of previous data with newer classes, etc.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses how decreases in mortality and improvements in selection of risk techniques are being offset by increased lapse rates and selection costs. The panel discussed current and anticipated responses.

Description: Defines Accelerated Underwriting programs as a transformational trend, and outlines a process for evaluating mortality implications of such programs.

Description: This session reviewed the distinctions and blurring of those distinctions between group and individual life insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided

Description: This discussion reviews underwriting and the possibilities of using extra premiums as an alternative to a war clause. Also a discussion of the experience of Great Britain and other countries with war deaths of 1 military personnel and 2 civilians and how this experience might be used to anticipate the extent of possible civilian war catastrophes and their effect on life insurance companies in United States and Canada. This panel further explores problems arising in connection with aviation risks as well as with the underwriting of war correspondents, Red Cross workers, members of the Merchant Marine and other auxiliary services.