Description: This presentation is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The speakers discuss per policy expenses. Topics include identification of expenses directly dependent on number of policies, impact on determining premium rates and dividend scales, use of policy fees, interaction with other assumptions, and methods in the U.S., Canada, and other countries to grade premiums by policy size.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: Results of the 2005 inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses, CLICE.

Description: Summary report of the 2005 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. Document contains a description of data used in the study, description of unit cost formulas, list of companies contributing to the study, tables and graphs, etc.

Description: Summary report of the 2005 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. Document contains a description of data used in the study, description of unit cost formulas, list of companies contributing to the study, tables and graphs, etc.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee’s third expense study – the 2003 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: Summary report for the eighth expense study conducted by the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses [CLICE]. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 23 U.S. life insurance companies.

Description: Results of the 2001 Expense Practices and Methodology survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Company. The intent of the survey was to provide the committee with guidance on the creation of an expense experience study.