Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting discusses existing and suggested life insurance products - adjustable life - which adjust to changes in need for coverage and changes in ability to pay. It compares adjustable life to universal life.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: This 1978 session focused on Individual Life Products in the Employee Market. Topics included: 1. What is the current status of the Section 79 market. 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept. 3. Trends in Deferred Compensation products. 4. Recent activity in the Key Person and Split Dollar markets.

Description: This 1978 session focused on individual insurance pricing theory which covered the pricing process: 1. definition of goals and marketing plan 2. establishment of actuarial assumptions 3. determination of prices 4. management of results

Description: This 1981 session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.

Description: Discussion of new individual life, annuity and disability product developments designed to meet conditions in today's market. This article was presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Panel discussion session on universal life examining marketing strategy, product line management, replacement programs, federal income taxes from three different viewpoints, mutual company, stock company, and Canadian company

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about redetermination of 'Non-Guaranteed Pricing Elements Recommendations', actuarial responsibilities to the various publics relative to nonguaranteed pricing functions and brief status report on Interim Actuarial Standards Board 'IASB' including how this Committee's Exposure Draft affects the IASB.

Description: Discusses making changes to non-guaranteed elements in interest-sensitive business, participating business, and indeterminate-premium business. Considers equity between newer and older blocks of business. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: In July 1987, the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Committee on Life Insurance Company Valuation Principles released an exposure draft in which a distinction was made between valuation principles and standards of practice. Rather than including specific standards of practice in the valuation principles themselves, the Committee developed valuation principles to encompass current and future standards of practice. Panelists discuss the work of the valuation actuary in the context of these developments. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.