Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session provided an update of current topics relating to individual life insurance. Subjects included: 1. Whole life products with a focus on par products from the marketplace point of view. 2. Financial factors impacting whole life products. 3. Guideline XXX and its impact on level term products. 4. Variable life insurance.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at trends inthe design and development of individual life insurance plans.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Speakers from a bank, stockbrokerage and mutual fund company address, for their industry, the nature of customer contact, methods of distribution, investment management capabilities, the need for a level playing field, and potential cross-breeding of various industries.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about product designs, market factors, state regulation, SEC aspects - 6e-3T.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the key drivers of profitability and measuring performance and profitability of the agency distribution business, particularly the captive agency channel. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Full version of Product Development News, October 1998, Issue No. 47

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: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This interactive presentation on variable products addressed life and annuity product design, pricing, distribution, and reserving issues.

Description: In this article the author compares the profitability of Variable Life Insurance and Universal Life Insurance products. He concludes that a company can develop a typical VUL product with adequate profitability as compared to the company’s current UL product.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion examines a few prototype annuity designs and mainly focuses on a typical single premium deferred annuity 'SPDA', a flexible premium deferred annuity, and a variable annuity.