Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses industry trends in agent compensation with the intent of retaining and attracting the better performing agents and aligning incentives with desired behaviors, while placing the insurer in an acceptable financial position.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses is currently seeking life insurance company data submissions to the 2012 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This is the sixth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: This is the ninth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 16 US life insurance companies.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussed the concepts of expense allocation, determination of product costs, overhead expenses, the product-cost system, variable versus fixed expenses, and pricing on a marginal basis.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting looks at the behind-the-scenes costs that are often missed when designing newer, more complex products. From The Society of Actuaries Record, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses (CLICE) has submitted its recommendation memo for the 2015 Generally Recognized Expense Table (GRET) for use with individual life insurance sales illustrations. The recommendation is currently being exposed for comments by the NAIC.

Description: Instructions for completing the workbook for the 2009 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This form solicits a response from companies regarding their intent to participate or not in the 2009 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. Recognizing that over the past few years, pricing actuaries have increasingly adopted marginal expense assumptions in pricing, the panelists discuss strategy and pricing considerations, including marginal strategies, fixed versus variable costs, and treatment of corporate overhead. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.