Description: This article describes some new attempts at comparing the expenses of companies as a whole and offers some preliminary interpretation of results. Volume 24, No. 4

Description: This article highlights GRET, the Generally Recognized Expense Table, which was included in the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: This article reviews proposed changes to Section 213 of the insurance law of New York. From The Actuary, February 1972, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This article discusses how insurers that focus on their core competencies and astutely outsource other functions will become more competitive and improve their performance.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.

Description: The author describes why expense management is critical in the insurance industry, especially with a superabundance of inflation driven forces threatening the life insurance industry.Expenses need current and constant attention because a if ignored, a small expense problem will almost inevitably rise to major significance, and b expense control is a measure of the effectiveness of management in difficult times.

Description: On September 24, 1970, the New York Actuaries Club sponsored a panel discussion on the need for revision of the New York Expense Limitation Law, Section 213, in the light of its history and purpose. This article summarizes that discussion.