Description: This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Reports in Connection with Social Security Legislation 1975-77, 'Statement on Cost Comparisons of Individual Life Insurance Policies', by Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 'Investment Activities of Life Insurance Companies' from Huebner Foundation Lectures, 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma' by Johns, 'The Future of Social Security' by Munnell, 'Social Security - Today and Tomorrow' by Ball, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'The Crisis in Social Security - Problems and Prospects' by Boskin, 'A History of Interest Rates' by Homer, 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert Myers, 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Strain, '1978 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund...' by US Congress. Brief summaries of additional readings are also included.

Description: This session discussion is about the revisions to the standard nonforfeiture methodology as proposed by the Society of Actuaries' task force on nonforfeiture values. Items to be discussed include retrospective versus prospective methodology, no-cash-value whole life, rate regulation issues, and market value adjustments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This meeting session occurred at the SOA's 1980 June Meeting. The topic was a Federal Trade Commission Report issued on insurance copmany practices with regards to life insurance. This report identified four areas of concern regarding consumer value and recommended changes.

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: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various individual life and health insurance topics including new health benefits, health underwriting, life insurance guaranteed insurability, conditional receipts and term insurance.

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: The session, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, covered topics related to Individual Life Insurance. The discussions presented were: variable life insurance, Section 79 products, policy loan interest rates, and term insurance. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: This is a discussion about new product developments, supplementary benefits - Accidental Death, Guaranteed Insurability and automatic inclusion of supplementary benefits rather than optional, product expense trends, considerations in setting commissions for policies with different characteristics, and analyzing and entering new markets.

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.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.