Description: The attached report presents the results of a survey whose purpose was to explore the various uses of technology by life insurance companies. The survey was conducted by the Technology Survey Subcommittee of the Society of Actuaries Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee. The primary focus of this survey was the impact of technology on mortality studies and underwriting.

Description: These are the appendices to a report summarizing the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: This is a 4 part discussion about issues affecting small companies: 1. Marketing, 2. Electronic Data Processing, 3. Forecasting and control of operating results, and 4. Income and Expense Allocation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This paper reviews the applications of operations research methods in the insurance industry. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: To expand our understanding of the theory of behavioral economics and its application to life and health insurance policyholder and annuitant behavior, the Society of Actuaries' Committee on Knowledge Extension Research, Committee on Life Insurance Research and the Financial Reporting Section issued a call for papers, inviting actuaries, academics, economists, psychologists, sociologists, researchers and other professionals to explore this topic from a variety of perspectives.

Description: This discussion is about the problems created or anticipated from an administratice and organization point of view as a result of the responsibility for computer operations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13 Pt. 2

Description: This discussion focuses on two question: First, How are the annual statement items such as reserves, dividends, insurance in force, etc developed and organized. Second, what new or unusual methods of calculating reserves, net premiums, and expected mortality have been developed through the use of computers?

Description: This is a report that summarizes a Survey of Life Insurance Utilization of Automated Underwriting Systems. It was sponsored by the Committee on Life Insurance Research, Marketing and Distribution and Product Development Sections of the Society of Actuaries and the research was conducted by Deloitte. The report covers many aspects of how much industry interest there is for automated underwriting systems, the goals life insurers seek to accomplish in using them, how the automated systems function, and how successfully they perform.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean strategies to acquiring business by life insurers. Appendices are included.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.