Description: This discussion at a SOA 1967 Regional Meeting covers individual life and health insurance topics including individual health loss of time coverages, life underwriting, reinsurance, individual annuity retirement plans in Canada, market testing new products.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting focused on return on investment in a rate-regulated environment. Topics included current rate-regulated environments, current use of ROI, ROI in price setting and future rate regulation controls. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses several topics, including the impact on juvenile insurance of guaranteed insurability riders, family policies, and others, the impact on sales to females due to the introduction of lower costs, policies allowing conversion o monthly life income, use of age last birthday, and revised policy formats.

Description: This is a discussion about underwriting standards for life and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: This 1979 session is about the paper, Some Actuarial Considerations for Mutual Companies. Topics included: 1. Surplus management programs 2. Methods of managing company performance

Description: This article is a detailed historical chronicle circa 1870 of a dispute concerning dividend distribution that was to draw into the fray university professors, a future justice of the Supreme Court, the Massachusetts insurance commissioner, and the daily press.

Description: The panel discussed US federal income taxes, addressing parts of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility Act of 1982- TEFRA- related to life insurance company taxes and policy owner aspects that are involved. Discussion of the repeal of existing tax law provisions relating to certain reinsurance transactions is also discussed

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. The Actuary's responsibilities- pensions, 2. Policy loan problems, 3. New forms of group insurance, and 4. Corporate financial management of mutual life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 75AB.