Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers Term Insurance including mortality and persistency experience and the impact of lapsation on profitability, mortality assumptions specifically with regard to smoker/non-smoker and reinsurance. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: This report has been organized into the following principal sections: The Profession, Society of Actuaries Internal Organization, Education, and The Immediate Future. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reports on Society of Actuaries antitrust review, the reasons for the review and the view of the recent work on Dividends and Other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: Panelists, along with significant audience participation, discuss the proposed changes in tax law for life insurance [which became Section 7702A], company reactions [especially regarding in-force-dividend policy] to the dropping new-money yield rates available, the nascent long-term-care-insurance [LTCI] and accelerated death benefit [ADB] coverages, group universal life products [GULPs], leveraged corporate-owned life insurance [COLI], and the impact of the recent stock-market dip on variable universal life [VUL] sales. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting covers current reserving requirements for AIDS in the U.S., Canada, and the U. K. Case studies are presented that look at evaluating the AIDS risk and determining the necessary reserves and surplus for the extra mortality.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings covered topics related to individual life and health insurance including health topics, individual life underwriting, reinsurance, individual policy pension fund expenses, tax sheltered annuities, and market testing products.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. The Actuary's responsibilities- pensions, 2. Policy loan problems, 3. New forms of group insurance, and 4. Corporate financial management of mutual life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 75AB.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the reasons for mutual life companies to have stock subsidiaries including taxes, introducing new products and distribution systems. It also covers the impact of TEFRA and Stark/Moore. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: Discussion of the attitudes of consumers and consumerists regarding the life insurance industry and its products and a discussion of opportunities for improvement Topics include: 1. Disclosure to existing policyholders 2. Policy loan problems, including the policy replacement problem 3. dividend determination practices and 4. deceptive sales practices in the llfe insurance business.

Description: This 1978 session discussed Individual Life Products in the Employee Market including: 1. The current status of the Section 79 market 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept 3. Trends in deferred compensation products 4. Recent activity in key person and split dollar markets.