Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss incorporating reinsurance costs into the pricing of their retail products. Panelists also discuss the different effects of various reinsurance arrangements.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on expense analysis and allocation. Areas addressed include standard of measure used, inconsistencies in expense allocations, and alternate methods of allocation of marketing expenses.

Description: This panel discussion is about expense assumptions in pricing. It focused on: 1. What were the historical approaches to expense loadings in premium rates of life and casualty lines? 2. What are the fundamental differences in life vs. casualty expense assumptions? 3. Current changes. 4. Future possibilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting presents the results of the recently completed Society of Actuaries Preferred Underwriting Survey. Panelists discuss survey methodology, results and implications for product design and pricing.

Description: This session from the 1995 Spring Meeting covers the design and development issues of 'Last to Die' policies, the applicability of reinsurance, capacity problems, and theoretical versus practical pricing considerations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers premiuims and dividend determination methods for individual ordinary insurance, new product ideas such as nonsmoker policies, profit analysis methodologies, and methods for comparing products of different companies.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting addresses pricing inadequacies that are perceived throughout the industry. Concerns are expressed about assumptions, lack of experience studies, surplus levels, and replacements.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about considerations in choosing interest assumptions and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. This session covered the process of rapid product issue and the implications that has from a marketing, underwriting, operational, product pricing, and design standpoint.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting discusses the evolution of techniques in product development for life insurance with a focus on macropricing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.