Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on the connection between the pricing function and financial reporting, communicating financial information to senior management and asset/liability management.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: In-depth discussion about the experiences of companies with plans like level-premium term to 100, in both U.S. and Canada: pricing considerations and techniques, lapse experience, sensitivity testing, regulatory history and recent activity, and establishing an adequate reserve. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: Informative discussion about pricing techniques, including: [1] uses of return on investment [ROI], GAAP return on equity [ROE], and universal life [UL] and other profit measures, [2] scenario testing, [3] expenses, [4] target surplus, and [5] federal-income-tax considerations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about the insurance industry is unique in the form of the financial instrument offered to consumers. Products earn long-term interest rates yet generally guarantee cash out without loss of principal. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Panelists discuss new methods, ideas, and approaches to products designed to provide adequate compensation to agents under new compensation arrangements and appropriate profits for insurers, while maintaining customer values. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the role of the investment operation in the product development process, the process of managing an in-force block of business, and how the differences in Statutory and GAAP accounting affect the pricing process.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss last-to-die and joint life insurance plans, noting their increasing popularity. The topics of discussion include plan design, regulatory issues, administration, tax issues, policy splitting provisions and the markets for these plans. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at trends inthe design and development of individual life insurance plans.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discusses new forms of compensation that are being utilized, the impact on product design, and the impact on company profitability.