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  • SOA Preferred Risk Surveys
    SOA Preferred Risk Surveys Discussion of a direct writer survey and a reinsurer survey conducted in ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll
    • Date: Nov 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Product Matters! August 2002, Issue No. 53
    In order to meet competition, many companies (direct writers as well as reinsur- ers) have reduced profit ... at dolld@towers.com. Graph 2C O ne of the primary pricing measuresfor individual life insurance prod-ucts ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Colin M Ramsay, Wayne Stuenkel, Larry Warren, Mary J Bahna-Nolan
    • Date: Aug 2002
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! November 2003, Issue No. 57
    this survey and another not-yet-released survey of direct companies (to see the handouts, go to the Web site ... This article summarizes some of the results. The direct company survey is a follow up to surveys conducted ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Douglas A Eckley, Larry M Gorski, Vincent Granieri, Sam Gutterman, David Simbro, David G Whittemore, Kevin J Howard, Novian Junus, Tracey Polsgrove, Van Beach
    • Date: Nov 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! July 2003, Issue No. 56
    accommodate them only as small ancillary benefits on a primary product. Life cycle products that start as life ... insurance and evolve into an annuity and then long-term care may be available. Products may have personally designed ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, William Carroll, James W Dallas, Douglas Doll, Thomas E Norton, W Howell Pugh, Robert Grotyohann, Douglas Robbins, Adrian R Pask, Jeremy Bill
    • Date: Jul 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Development News, March 1998, Issue No. 45
    to catego- rize policyholder behavior into two primary modes: Naïve mode: Buy as prices increase; sell ... International Products Regulation/Concern with Long-Term Care Ideas Internet Activity on Life Critical Illness ...

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    • Authors: Donald C Chambers, Douglas Doll, Deborah Sloan, Anson Glacy, Johan Lotter, Mark Milton, Kevin Larsen
    • Date: Mar 1998
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! November 2002, Issue No. 54
    products such as disability income or long term care. Under the acceler- ated rider, the policyholder ... market including individual, voluntary (worksite), direct response and group. Some products may offer a series ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Jay Jaffe, Michael Kaster, Daniel Theodore, Susan Kimball, Michael Taht, Mary J Bahna-Nolan, Andrew M Erman, John J Spina
    • Date: Nov 2002
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! October 2007, Issue No. 69
    consistent with the expec- tations of reinsurers and direct writers that were captured in the SOA’s preferred ... less tail risk than the protection product, but care should be taken not to over-generalize this conclusion ...

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    • Authors: Jeffrey Beckley, Douglas Doll, Jeffery Dukes, Donna Claire, Mike Lombardi, Mike Boot, Catherine J Bierschbach, Patricia Matson, Robert Stone
    • Date: Oct 2007
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! April 2003, Issue No. 55
    reinsurers, who face many of the same pressures as direct writers, have found it necessary to withdraw from ... either the GMIB value or the contract value. A direct cost, or economic cost, of a GMIB is incurred ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Douglas Doll, Susan Saip, Michael Joseph Burns, Eric Carlson, Robert Ireland
    • Date: Apr 2003
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • Product Matters! August 2005, Issue No. 62
    from their “bread-and-butter” product line. The primary hurdle to entering the EIUL market may be an administrative ... agents on a new concept can take time, effort and care. When appointed to bring an EIUL product from concept ...

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    • Authors: James C Brooks, Douglas Doll, Jeffery Dukes, Abraham Gootzeit, Donna Claire, Michael Kaster, Susan Saip, Michael LeBoeuf, Robert Stone, David Weinsier, Edward Hui
    • Date: Aug 2005
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • SOA Report on Mortality Improvement Survey
    SOA Report on Mortality Improvement Survey Discussion of the Society of Actuaries Report on ... Canadian companies responded. All companies were direct writers (i.e., not reinsurers). The survey asked ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll
    • Date: Jul 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance