Description: This panel discussion is about the viability of single premium annuities and single premium life insurance. Items discusses include product design, pricing and regulatory issues with the back drop of high inflation of the times.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the future of whole life insurance reviewing a comparison of whole life and a combination product of annual renewable term and flexible premium annuity, the decline in whole life and UL's advantages and disadvantages as the product of the future. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the changes that are being made to traditional dividend distribution techniques - specifically new money and variable interest rates on policy loans, how unusual changes in dividend experience are reflected in surplus distribution and update programs. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

Description: This material from the 1981 SOA Fall Meeting is a collection of impromptu questions and comments from an Open Forum session on policy loans. The purpose of this session is to discuss the policy loan rates, equity between borrowers and non-borrowers, and equity among groups of policy-owners having different contractual loan rates. The variable loan rate proposal and direct recognition are also covered. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: A debate among industry giants of whether the life insurance industry in 1977 is entering a period of changes that will affect business in the most fundamental way or whether it's just experiencing normal trials and tribulations.