Description: Message from the section chairperson about upcoming section sponsored events.

Description: Chairperson's column for the May 2023 issue of NewsDirect discussing the Section's strategic themes for the year.

Description: This article discusses how the new 2001 CSO Mortality Table affects company taxation of life insurance policies, and how one recent and another proposed revenue ruling will affect policyholder taxation of life insurance policies related to correcting policies in order to comply with Section 7702.

Description: There are two key trends in the preneed and final expense insurance market, the first being small independently held preneed insurance companies presenting attractive acquisitional benefits and secondly, changing consumer attitudes may drive increased final expense activity in the future.

Description: This article is based on a presentation made by Jim Campbell at the Annual Conference of the Professional Insurance Marketing AssociationPIMAon banks in todays insurance distribution landscape. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: This article discusses the project to develop a new Credit Life Insurance valuation standard.

Description: This article summarizes a recent session at an SOA meeting that presented tips on improving and speeding the product filing process.

Description: This article presents the idea that a New Product Notebook, which contains all of the aspects of a product's development and is accessible to all involved, can make the product development process more efficient.

Description: This article looks at the public's difficulty in recognizing what they need to achieve financial security and how the insurance industry's products fulfill those needs.

Description: To better understand the product development process and practices currently used at insurance companies, the Society of Actuaries Marketing and Distribution Section Council initiated a Product Development Survey in the summer of 2006. The goal of the survey was to identify company practices for product development by asking individuals with product implementation responsibilities about the process followed at their companies. For this survey, the “product development process” was viewed holistically – encompassing everything from how ideas are generated through to how products are monitored post-launch. Also, all aspects of the product development process were considered – marketing, actuarial, underwriting, finance, customer service, IT, legal/compliance, etc.