Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: Discussion of the diversification activities of a number of life insurance companies. This includes the formation of, or acquisition of, property and casualty insurers, variable annuity companies, mutual fund management companies, banks, finance companies, leasing companies, real estate development companies, televisions and radio stations, newspapers, software consultants and other corporate enterprises. Discussion includes: 1. Activities really compatible with the llfe insurance product. 2. Activities otherwise compatible with corporate objectives or offering potentially large profit centers. 3. Activities which can be an excessive drain on corporate earnings and executive manpower 4. The actuary's role in these diversification activities. Then the discussion goes into a discussion of corporate planning models

Description: This document summarizes the meeting of the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Design Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting of this section consisted of a report to members, role and purpose of the section, and an open discussion.

Description: Panel discussion session examining individual retirement account competition including products offered by banks, stock brokerage firms,mutual fund companies, and insurers. Discussion of market share of each type of financial institution in the IRA market.

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on individual annuities especially non-qualified single premium and flexible premium annuities. Areas covered include marketing problems, product design, reasons for popularity, tax characteristics, SEC investigation and NAIC Model Reg.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses current regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including smoker/non-smoker mortality tables, unisex legislation being considered and life insurance without guaranteed cash values. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses Life Association structure, Casualty Association structure, Proposed NAIC changes, alternative approaches for Life Associations, prognosis for the future.

Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, the NAIC's activities around profitability and early warning tests, A&H rate filing guidelines, and SEC activity around annuities..

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about changes to the regulations for statutory reporting. Some of the issues covered are new reserve laws, regulations for term insurance reserves, update rules for asset valuation reserve, interest maintenance reserve, and risk-based capital RBC.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.