Description: This presentation was made at the SOA 1975 New York Spring Meeting. It discussed new individual product developments designed to meet the conditions in today's market. This would include underwriting, administrative, and technical problems on such new products as life cycle policies, low cost life, index-linked policies, or policies with special cash values 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.2

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22 , No. 7. This articles explores the dangers posed by many guaranteed-return life insurance and annuity products.

Description: This 1980 session was about the various distribution systems, trends in market share, relative costs, differences, major advantages and disadvantages of each, and the way in which these systems will be affected by change.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion talks about what will separate the winners from the losers in our business in the future and briefly about what might affect product development actuaries.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings focuses on the sales results for pension trust and profit sharing plans. Also, the shift from Industrial to Ordinary sales and resultant mortality is discussed.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed Variable Universal Life Insurance's: History, Product designs and compensation, Regulatory considerations, Marketing considerations, Data processing considerations, Valuation and accounting considerations.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses background, product design, NAIC model regulations, New York legislation and regulations, investment considerations, financial reporting, and provides a Canadian overview of MVA products.

Description: Description of a method of calculating life insurance reserves when more than one life is involved. Followed by a discussion paper submitted

Description: This paper develops a tool that may be useful in explaining the differences between earnings that are reported under GAAP and profits that are expressed as an internal rate of return.

Description: This paper begins with an investigation of the conceptual profit model known as Anderson's formula, then it compares Anderson's formula with two alternative profit formulas and discusses some applications and limitations of each method. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.