Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: Discussion on the future of permanent life insurance. The panel examines whether cash value life insurance will continue in light of uncertain economic future, double digit inflation, competitive term products, replacements, increasing policy loans, attractive alternative savings products and the consumerist/regulatory atmosphere. g. Consumerist and regulatory atmosphere? h. Possible changes in tax, nonforfeiture and valuation laws?

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of the AIDS epidemic, legal challenges to risk classification practices, impact on practices resulting from these challenges and from trends in areas such as preferred risks and guaranteed issues, possible future developments in underwriting and risk classification and how they may impact product design and marketing.

Description: RECORD OF SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES 1981 VOL. 7 NO. 3 This discussion looks at the future of permanent life insurance as of 1981, comparing traditional permanent products to term life, universal life, and non life insurance products. Related uncertain economic environment issues and tax issues are discussed.

Description: Panel discussion exploring likely future scenarios, encompassing: Balance between state and federal regulation, effects of trends in tax regulation, and implications of all-federal or all-state regulation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 2.

Description: This 1980 session is about effect of government actions and consumerism on product design and pricing. Areas addressed: 1. What have been the most important regulatory and consumerist actions in the past decade as related to products, their marketing and the overall operation of a life insurance company? 2. What will be the most important actions in these arenas in the next decade? 3. What specific impact have these regulatory and consumer actions had on companies in the past decade and will they have in the coming decade? 4. What true value has accrued to consumers and the public because of these actions, and what impact will they have in the next decade? 5. Is there an acceptable relationship between the value of these benefits and the cost to the companies of providing them?

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: 1998 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. Panelists discussed the activity of the newly emerging mutual holding company structure. Advantages and disadvantages of a MHC structure were addressed.

Description: This panel discussion occurred at the SOA's 1975 Bal Harbour meeting. The topic was the relationship of the actuary to the policyholder including, non-discrimination issues, improved policyholder service, dividend philosophy, cost comparisons and disclosure obligations. 1975 Record Vol. 1, No. 4

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Insurance and banking experts update financial services convergence issues since the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley 'GLB, a.k.a. Financial Services Modernization Act'. Company reaction to the passage of GLB, actuarial contributions to the process and future actuarial implications are addressed.