Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: Independent brokerage agencies have been the alternative distribution system of choice by life insurers using methods other than the career agency system to bring products to market.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 3. This article discusses how the advantages of the General Agency system which existed prior to the 1970s have diminished materially. Therefore, European companies should be very cautious with any attempts to emulate the North American-type agency distribution system of the late 1980s.

Description: This article discusses the changes in the marketing and distribution of lindividual life and annuity products. It highlights new distribution channels including banks, broker dealers, wirehouses and the Internet as well as fee-for-service financial planning.

Description: Article from The Actuary, February 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 2 provides a recap of the Actuaries Club of New York meeting and the two panel discussions one on Consumerism and one on the Interest Adjusted Cost Method.

Description: A recap of the Canadians Institute of Actuaries Meeting held in March 1983. This article focuses on the surrender and replacement of life insurance policies as they face competition from other investment products.

Description: This article examines the issues, trends and opportunities associated with life insurance distribution.

Description: This is a graph from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitlled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: This is the first article in a four-part series. In this series of articles, analysis of the U.S. life insurance industry's customers, products, distribution system and regulatory and tax environment will be given. This first part of the series focuses on the customer and the changing product mix of the life insurance industry.

Description: This article is about how technology and the internet is changing the way insurance is marketed and sold.

Description: This session is about the impact of the 1992 Single Europe Act on life insurance in the European market. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 1