Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 Topics covered in this session included: 1. Which customer segments may or may not be Internet-literate and how they can be identified, 2. How to determine the needs of identified customer segments and which of these needs can be served through the Internet, 3. Product consideration given Internet distribution, including design, agent involvement, and regulatory/compliance considerations.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. The panel discussed developments in products that involve multiple lives. Topics included: 1. Last to die products. 2. First to die products. 3. Variable products. 4. Reinsurance. 5. Market trends.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists address a range of issues related to product development in life insurance companies.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session the panelists led the audience through case studies that required the development of various difficult assumptions where experience is limited. The panel discussed the key issues and how they would go about developing each assumption.

Description: Discusses: [1] the term-insurance marketplace and the reinsurance thereon, both past and present, [2] the changing reinsurer-client relationship, [3] the evolving reinsurance and direct marketplaces, and [4] the interrelationships between those two marketplaces. Significant discussion about AIDS risks in Q&A. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: In session 75 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists explore practical considerations of maintaining compliance with federal income tax definition of life insurance rules. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses insurers' methods for monitoring in-force business, repricing existing products and pricing guidelines. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Informative discussion about pricing techniques, including: [1] uses of return on investment [ROI], GAAP return on equity [ROE], and universal life [UL] and other profit measures, [2] scenario testing, [3] expenses, [4] target surplus, and [5] federal-income-tax considerations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.