Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Explores work to study the mortality experience of the older ages, the mortality costs to the insurer if the absolute level and shape of the pricing mortality curve is incorrect and the value of underwriting with regard to select vs. ultimate mortality.

Description: This report is based on simplified issue [SI] products sold during 2004 but introduced before 2004. Twenty-seven companies responded, covering 48 products.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses different profitability or performance measures for insurance company lines of business, measurement on a statutory or GAAP basis and determining statutory surplus. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss the purposes of life insurance sales illustrations – for participating and non-participating products – and what use they really are to potential customers. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Article Sections And Divisions Ideas by Task Force on Special Interests in The Actuary, December 1979, Volume 13, Number 10

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: Early description of a Medicare data source showing geographic differences by county and state.

Description: Features Editor Deborah Poppel met with CFOs Bertram Pike, of John Hancock, and Ralph Verni, of The New England. They talked about the role of the CFO and the environment in which they operate.