Description: This is a panel discussion session examining the complaints of life insurance consumers. The subjects include readability of contracts, risk classification methods, variety of product including the meaning of product names- what does the customer think he/she is buying or has bought, perceived lack of competition,

Description: This is an article about single women and marketing to them.

Description: This 1981 session concerned Individual Life Insurance Cost Disclosure Issues including i. Current Status of Cost Disclosure Requirements 2. Responses to Cost Disclosure Pressures 3. Future Needs and Problems 4. Vehicles Available to Effect Changes There is also a discussion of replacements and the need for better communication of the comparisons of the replaced policy to the new policy to prospective buyers.

Description: Discussion of the attitudes of consumers and consumerists regarding the life insurance industry and its products and a discussion of opportunities for improvement Topics include: 1. Disclosure to existing policyholders 2. Policy loan problems, including the policy replacement problem 3. dividend determination practices and 4. deceptive sales practices in the llfe insurance business.

Description: Successful Marketing and Selling to Baby-Boomer-and-Older Customers Twelve Recent Brain Research Discoveries Having Relevance to Successful Communications By James J. Gilmartin from Long-Term Care Newsletter, September 2004, Issue No. 12.

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Article describes the concept of Rational Ignorance and suggests that recognizing this issue in the life insurance industry might assist in reducing the Protection Gap.

Description: This research report sponsored by the SOA's Marketing and Distribution Section gives valuable insights from leaders in the middle income life insurance market.

Description: Behavioral science reveals that consumers tend to assess risk emotionally, through perceptions rather than calculations. So, will COVID-19 change risk perceptions in the long term -- and similarly increase life insurance sales? Insurers should take nothing for granted

Description: Description and welcome to the 2020 Canadian Reinsurance Conference including highlight of the key note speaker