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  • Combination Annuities—A Market to Get Into?
    Combination Annuities—A Market to Get Into? This article discusses the pending Pension Protection ... products that combine LTC and Annuities. Long-term care insurance=LTCI;Marketing and distribution;Simplified ...

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    • Authors: Cary O Lakenbach
    • Date: Jun 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Annuities>Fixed annuities; Long-term Care
  • Technology Will Level the Playing Field
    independent agency, insurer, reinsurer, direct market or direct writer—can win in the new game. The industry ... opened West. The second transformation was the direct writers’ rise to personal line dominance. After ...

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    • Authors: Tim Pease
    • Date: Sep 1999
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications
  • Small Talk, December 2018, Issue 50
    and other topics. Health insurance and long-term care insurance have their own pages. The organization ... change as well. The mom-and-pop approach to customer care will also slowly lose its appeal as the new generation ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Smaller Life Insurance Companies and Smaller Life Reinsurers: The Partnership Solution
    near future. For small life insurance companies (direct writers) the impact of fewer life reinsurance ... reasons. Unlike their larger sized brethren, smaller direct writers need reinsurance to make many of their ...

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    • Authors: Jay Jaffe
    • Date: Nov 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Small Company, Big Data
    change as well. The mom-and-pop approach to customer care will also slowly lose its appeal as the new generation ... processes. Actuaries, especially those who are the primary producer of the business intelligence in the small ...

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    • Authors: Ying Zhao, WIN GEORG
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • Using Relevant Experience Data to Increase Credibility and Reduce Margins
    case of a reinsurer providing experi- ence to a direct writer to use in setting the mortality assumption ... based on credibility levels but should be used with care. The width of the distribution of reinsurer experience ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Small Talk, September 2017, Issue 48
    year—using LIMRA sales mix data. Reserves are on a direct basis. Triple X reserves used an X factor of 60 ... emerging PBR requirements for annuities, long-term care, and long-term dis- ability have the same exemptions ...

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    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • AG CCC Causes Rethink of ROP Term
    which could reduce reinsurance opportunities for direct writers. Also, the calculation of CVs is standardized ... benefit that is easy for producers to sell and direct writers to administer. The pattern of percentage ...

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    • Authors: George J Hrischenko
    • Date: Jun 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • Complying with the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation in 2010: Which Interest Rate Scenarios are “Moderately Adverse”?
    Complying with the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation in 2010: Which Interest Rate ... tells us that interest rates are made up of two primary com- ponents: inflation and growth. What happened ...

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    • Authors: Mark C Rowley, Robert Guth, Donald Walker
    • Date: Jun 2011
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • The Smaller Company Reinsurance Issue
    The Smaller Company Reinsurance Issue Discusses the competitive disadvantage for smaller life ... just as important to a reinsurer as it is for a direct insurer to maintain a minimum policy size on the ...

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    • Authors: Clark Himmelberger
    • Date: Nov 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance