Description: Overview of market trends impacting the group benefits space in Canada and the implications for insures as they prepare for future evolving industry dynamics.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents case studies on the use of technology to solve some of the problems commonly encountered by actuaries in smaller companies.

Description: This is a report that summarizes a Survey of Life Insurance Utilization of Automated Underwriting Systems. It was sponsored by the Committee on Life Insurance Research, Marketing and Distribution and Product Development Sections of the Society of Actuaries and the research was conducted by Deloitte. The report covers many aspects of how much industry interest there is for automated underwriting systems, the goals life insurers seek to accomplish in using them, how the automated systems function, and how successfully they perform.

Description: This discussion looks at the approach for applying electronic computers to the operating practices of a company.

Description: Discussion of the findings of a survey conducted by Deloitte Consulting on the experience insurers were having with automated underwriting. This survey was solicited by the Society of Actuaries' Marketing and Distribution Section Council, the Product Development Section Council and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.