Description: This is an article that discusses the retreat of savings banks from mutuality. As we ponder the future of mutual life insurance, we should be aware of the change sweeping through the mutual savings bank industry.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting reviews developments in savings product design including equity-indexed annuities, CD-type annuities, the market value adjusted market, an assessment of purchasing trends and developments in other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers the overall trends in the financial market place, the relationship between banks and insurance companies, joint ventures between them and the issues faced by these two distribution systems. From the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.