Description: This article gives a comprehensive overview of how a bank can establish a broader financial services program. Areas reviewed included the types of insurance products, the people, training and compensation, and the management structures.

Description: The Professional Insurance Marketing Association (PIMA) recently named the winners of its annual Marketing Methods Competition at the 2005 PIMA MarkeTTech Symposium. Winners represent the best of the best in insurance direct marketing.

Description: This is an editorial by Nancy Manning. From News Direct, June 2007, Issue No. 56.

Description: This is an editorial about direct marketing, credit insurance and non-traditional product management. From News Direct, May 2006, Number 53.

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Description: Information on The Current Issues in Actuarial Science Education session at the Joint Math Meeting

Description: Announcement for the grant competition

Description: The second part of a panel discussion on the changes ERM is creating in the actuarial and business worlds. This first part of this discussion appeared in the December/January issue of The Actuary. Topics covered included: the difference between ERM now and risk management of the past, the transformation of the CRO role due to ERM and more. You can find the first part of this series on the SOA Web site at: www. soa.org, Research & Publications, The Actuary Magazine, December 2005, ERM's Wave of Change: Part I.

Description: This article summarizes a series of surveys that explore how the public perceives retirement risks and manages related financial resources. It also provides examples of conflicting perceptions and behavior related to retirement and how retirees manage assets in retirement.

Description: This article discusses the changes in the marketing and distribution of lindividual life and annuity products. It highlights new distribution channels including banks, broker dealers, wirehouses and the Internet as well as fee-for-service financial planning.