Description: The paper analyzes the merits of various bases for illustrating ordinary life insurance dividends considering dividend histories, current allocation, current experience, dividend forecasts and investment generation allocation. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: A debate among industry giants of whether the life insurance industry in 1977 is entering a period of changes that will affect business in the most fundamental way or whether it's just experiencing normal trials and tribulations.