Description: Professional development opportunities from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Chairperson’s column addressing recent and planned activities of the Marketing and Distribution Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Discussion from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando on the diversification of life insurance companies including recent experience in acquisitions, and changes in corporate structure of life insurance companies. This panel from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando discussed the diversification of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Recent experience in the acquisitions, diversification and corporate structure of life insurance companies. 2. Factors causing companies to change the forms of their operations. 3. Process for life insurance companies deciding on their paths.

Description: The title is the theme of the SOA spring meeting on April 14 - 15, 1980. The meeting will focus the effects of changing outside forces on product development, pricing and distribution systems. Possible sessions are discussed.

Description: This panel from the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs discussed the diversification of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Recent experience in the acquisitions, diversification and corporate structure of life insurance companies. 2. Factors causing companies to change the forms of their operations. 3. Process for life insurance companies deciding on their paths. 4. Impact of a change in production, marketing, profitability, administration, and management of our industry and our profession. 5. Expected evolution of these developments in the 1980's and beyond.