Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Discusses the insurance product development environment in various international markets with emphasis on both current and future trends.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Considers many ways product distribution might evolve in the future. Discussion compares traditional forms in place today with some expected and even some unexpected forms of tomorrow. The impact of distribution on product development and design is also explored.

Description: A discussion of what life insurance distribution systems might look like in 1990- from the perspective of 1980- under a high inflation scenario. Included the following topics: I. Traditional agency distribution systems 1a. Which systems will survive the 1980s 1b. Anticipated changes in the traditional systems 2. New agency distribution systems 3. Direct response marketing 4. New methods of selling insurance

Description: These are the appendices to a report summarizing the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean strategies to acquiring business by life insurers. Appendices are included.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the current status since the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, outlook for bank distribution of insurance products, and experiences with bank-insurer conglomerations.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about marketing arrangements and mergers with non-insurance the financial institutions.