Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. The stated objective of this session was to provide a good feel of what financial service convergence means. It included a legislative update of what was happening in Washington in 1999 and discussions on customer segmentation, on bancassurance products, and distribution channels within a bank.

Description: Panel discusses several approaches to life and annuity product distribution in the U.S., and looks at the life insurance industry in four other countries. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 71 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss how banks have entered the insurance markets in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and continental Europe. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, covered information and opinions related to consumerist trends and their actuarial implications. Discussions included: the U.S. Senate's Consumer Information and Fairness Act, NAIC disclosures, entitlement, changing life styles, confidentiality, availability of coverages, and Canadian consumerist developments.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting examines some ways in which bancassurance has been implemented by insurers in other countries and prospects in the U.S.

Description: Head of a full-service wholesaling company discusses marketing insurance products through stock brokerage firms, banks, and broker-dealers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session was about the Latin-American insurance market. Topics included: 1. Size, growth, regulations, products, distribution, marketing. 2. Market entry, business strategies, cultural issues, local staffing. 3. Level of activity for U.S. companies.

Description: This is a discussion about the business effects of adoption of the 1958 CSO mortality table, possible reasons for the declining trend in individual life insurance sales, and effects of NY limitations on commissions and developments in agency earnings that could lead to modifications in the agency system.

Description: Panelists discuss how product design, premium-rate development, and marketing methods are being used to win the allegiance of an aging U.S. senior market to a carrier's brand. They talk specifically about the Medicare Supplement market, the long-term-care [LTC] market, and travel-cancellation insurance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 135PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This discussion at a Smaller Company Forum is about the challenges that smaller companies face in three areas - actuarial student recruiting and training, gross premium determination, and agency building.