Description: This article discusses how insurers that focus on their core competencies and astutely outsource other functions will become more competitive and improve their performance.

Description: This article highlights GRET, the Generally Recognized Expense Table, which was included in the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: This article describes some new attempts at comparing the expenses of companies as a whole and offers some preliminary interpretation of results. Volume 24, No. 4

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Smaller Company Forum, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. It summarizes the comments made by and identifies each individual contributing to the discussion. The discussion topics include measures a smaller company can take to reduce the expense of printing and preparing policy forms, at what stage in a company's growth is it advisable to shift from manual to machine accounting processes, and whether quality rating selection methods are achieving satisfactory results. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.

Description: The author describes why expense management is critical in the insurance industry, especially with a superabundance of inflation driven forces threatening the life insurance industry.Expenses need current and constant attention because a if ignored, a small expense problem will almost inevitably rise to major significance, and b expense control is a measure of the effectiveness of management in difficult times.

Description: On September 24, 1970, the New York Actuaries Club sponsored a panel discussion on the need for revision of the New York Expense Limitation Law, Section 213, in the light of its history and purpose. This article summarizes that discussion.

Description: This article is an excerpt of a Society of Actuaries study note on acquisition expenses/selling expenses.