Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management actuary and the product management process. Topics discussed : 1. The monitoring of the environment and how that monitoring leads to the generation of ideas. 2. Consideration of how those ideas are affected by distribution, marketing, and organizational issues. 3. The setting of assumptions. 4. How to get different areas of your company to work together, and ways to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. 5. How to manage business once your company places it on the books.

Description: Economics professor discusses the economics of fair and unfair discrimination in insurance. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: These discussions at the Jacksonville and Chicago SOA 1962 Regional Meetings covered topics ranging from sales of health insurance by life agents to requirements for production clubs to products for the tax sheltered annuity market.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about joint ventures and private labeling for life, annuity and disability products. In a primary variation of private labeling, a manufacturer develops, underwrites, administers, and does the actuarial functions, but the client company markets the product. Other variations of joint ventures have different distributions of duties.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on effective product management of life insurance. Areas addressed include definition of effective product management, internal organization required, establishment of objectives for a product line, coordination of company activities with respect to initial design, and monitoring.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1967 Annual Meeting covers three topics. First is the Carter Commission Report that recommends radical changes to the Canadian tax system. Second is a report on U.S. federal government activities in the health market. Third is an update on variable annuities.

Description: Discusses manufacturing arrangements between insurers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.