Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the Washington outlook, Social research projections, and the outlook on future format of the financial services market.

Description: Introductory Comments for the Response to Life Insurance 2020 Foresight – A Call for Essays e-Book. This e-book focuses on the vision for the future of the life insurance sector.

Description: A perspective of the impact on the insurance industry after the first decade of AIDS in the US.

Description: We look in this article at the challenges which life insurance companies operating in a low interest environment have to face.

Description: Evan Borisenko looks at previous challenging environments for the life insurance industry, such as the a period of severe stagnation in the 1930s, the increased inflation in the 1980s and a catastrophe like the Spanish influenza after the World War I. Evan explains that "while each event described above challenged the life insurance industry in a unique way, each event stimulated an equally unique solution." The article concludes that we "fight to repeat history" in a way that we as actuaries should be able to propose unique solutions with when faced with crisis in the future.

Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: Provides an overview of India's insurance market and the important role of the actuary.

Description: Article describing some of the significant changes occurring in Poland after the fall of the Berlin Wall with a focus on life insurance and conversion to a private pension market.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion talks about what will separate the winners from the losers in our business in the future and briefly about what might affect product development actuaries.

Description: Editorial regarding the diverse forces affecting the life insurance industry.