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: 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: This is the second article in a four–part series. In this article, the industry's products are examined.

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

Description: This session is about the practical and theoretical considerations in all-lines insurance operations, solvency of all-lines companies, and financial implications of all-lines operations, including investment of assets and Federal Income Tax.

Description: Examines the trends affecting the distribution system for the industry's products, and the regulatory and tax environment in which life companies operate. Also looks briefly at the state of competition in the industry.