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: A review of how credit life and disability insurance is used in conjuction with real estate loans.

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

Description: Read the July 2020 issue of NewsDirect published by the Marketing & Distribution Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Feature article clarifying terms used in life insurance distribution

Description: Feature article discussing how the insurance industry can better serve the middle income sector. The author cites LIMRA's latest study on personal ownership of life insurance which reveals an under-served and poorly served market. Improvements in marketing, distribution, and the issue process are the keys, in the author's opinion to improvement.

Description: This article discusses how outsourcing, if properly structured and managed, can have a positive impact on shareholder value.

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: Discussion of the ways carriers can deliver a direct to consumer offering in a way that benefits, rather than alienates, the advisor channel.

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