Description: This article describes some new attempts at comparing the expenses of companies as a whole and offers some preliminary interpretation of results. Volume 24, No. 4

Description: Article The U.S. Government Cost Disclosure Report by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6

Description: Discussion of the future of the life insurance distribution system from a meeting of the Actuarial Club of the Pacific States.

Description: This article is a discussion of a measure of life insurance policy cost which the author refers to as “aggregate administrative cost ratio,” based on figures from the life insurance companies’ annual statements filed with state insurance commissioners. The article provides the formulas for calculation and demonstrates how the cost ratios can be a useful tool for an individual considering the purchase of life insurance.

Description: This article reviews proposed changes to Section 213 of the insurance law of New York. From The Actuary, February 1972, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: The author describes why expense management is critical in the insurance industry, especially with a superabundance of inflation driven forces threatening the life insurance industry.Expenses need current and constant attention because a if ignored, a small expense problem will almost inevitably rise to major significance, and b expense control is a measure of the effectiveness of management in difficult times.

Description: On September 24, 1970, the New York Actuaries Club sponsored a panel discussion on the need for revision of the New York Expense Limitation Law, Section 213, in the light of its history and purpose. This article summarizes that discussion.