Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session discusses how small companies can set themselves apart by recognizing and exploiting their relative advantages

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management actuary and the product management process. Topics discussed : 1. The monitoring of the environment and how that monitoring leads to the generation of ideas. 2. Consideration of how those ideas are affected by distribution, marketing, and organizational issues. 3. The setting of assumptions. 4. How to get different areas of your company to work together, and ways to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. 5. How to manage business once your company places it on the books.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting covers the special problems and opportunities of managing a small life insurance company including distribution systems, the role and expertise of the reinsurer and the role that a consultant can play in developing the business direction.

Description: This is a discussion on individual life insurance market needs and product design under conditions of inflation. Specifically it highlights the needs and interests of potential customers during periods of inflation, what problems are created in traditional life insurance product design during inflation, what solutions are available to life insurance companies and what solutions may be available in the future.

Description: Discussion of recent economic, social and political environment and trends and the impact they have had on insurance regulation and needed changes in the regulations and regulatory process.

Description: Discussion on the future of permanent life insurance. The panel examines whether cash value life insurance will continue in light of uncertain economic future, double digit inflation, competitive term products, replacements, increasing policy loans, attractive alternative savings products and the consumerist/regulatory atmosphere. g. Consumerist and regulatory atmosphere? h. Possible changes in tax, nonforfeiture and valuation laws?

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: This is a discussion of indexed coverages for individual contracts. It covers such topics as the history of indexed coverage in the U.S. and Canada and other countries and the possibilities for the ideal fully-indexed permanent life insurance and disability income plans.