Description: This is a request for data for the 2005 intercompany expense study.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses' fourth annual expense study – the 2004 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. A Per Policy Index for first year expenses and a Per Policy Inforce Index for operating expenses is developed as a high level basis of comparison.

Description: This is the sixth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: Results of the 2001 Expense Practices and Methodology survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Company. The intent of the survey was to provide the committee with guidance on the creation of an expense experience study.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussed the concepts of expense allocation, determination of product costs, overhead expenses, the product-cost system, variable versus fixed expenses, and pricing on a marginal basis.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting looks at the behind-the-scenes costs that are often missed when designing newer, more complex products. From The Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.