Description: Breakout Sessions 1A: The Fundamentals of Pricing for Underwriters

Description: AG 49 pertains to illustrated life insurance products with a crediting rate tied to an index. The guideline discusses the maximum illustrated credited rate and format changes to illustrations.

Description: Five Insights from the Society of Actuaries Product Development Survey on how to bring products to market.

Description: The purpose of this endeavor was to undertake a research project on term conversion experience with a particular focus on conversion rates and mortality experience of term to permanent converted policies.

Description: In this mock jury trial, a life insurance company defends their underwriting process. The audience, as the jury, will render the verdict.

Description: There are so many things going on in the life market that challenge and engage all parties of the insurance transaction. The presenters will cover a variety of aspects of the life market including accelerated underwriting, principle based reserves, and regulatory and product changes occurring in the life insurance market. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Describe how the life insurance market is being impacted by changes internal and external to companies - Describe how companies are navigating changing underwriting landscape - Explain how regulations may impact companies going forward

Description: This article discusses sessions from the product development section post symposium seminar on product development - beginning to end. Sessions included product specific topics like term, universal life with secondary guarantees, and indexed products. Panel discussions included inforce management and advanced modeling issues.

Description: Describes some of the content of the Underwriting issues and innovations seminar for the last 2 years, and lays out the topics for the seminar for 2015.

Description: Initiated by the Product Development Section, this report examines global product development (PD) practices of life insurance and annuity companies.

Description: Initiated by the Product Development Section, this report examines global product development (PD) practices of life insurance and annuity companies.