Description: The SOA has a growing number of research projects specifically addressing opportunities and insights for its membership in Asia.

Description: A discussion of how patents can be used to recover the cost of innovation in product development and operations

Description: discussion of a LIMRA survey on the quantity and types of recent product development efforts of life insurance companies and the considerations driving these efforts

Description: Ways of closing the mortality protection gap, by leveraging some of the new technology, data and analytics to reduce the friction in the buying process.

Description: This article presents an overview of the history and issues associated with penetrating the middle market for individual life insurance. Underwriting and marketing approaches are suggested. The potential role of the reinsurer is explored.

Description: This document contains material excerpted from a speech given on June 17, 1997 by Tom Kelly, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of LIMRA International, at a LOMA/LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Singapore. It focuses on the life insurance industry around the world and some of the forces driving change and their implications.

Description: The author explores recent challenges for the fast-growing life insurance market in China and suggests possible strategies to help the industry rebound.

Description: This article discusses the differences between insurance direct marketers and actuaries and the similarities on which they can build.

Description: This article offers an overview of the preneed market, its products and pricing.

Description: Bancassurance, the sale of life insurance through banks, has captured a large market share in Europe. This article focuses on the core problems that drive banks and insurers into cooperation, the competencies that make these unions work, and the challenges that must be overcome to make bancassurance a success.