Description: his article contains a summary of some of the presentations given at the 2015 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit, held October 11–14, in Austin.

Description: Read the Chairperson's Corner from the July 2016 issue of Product Matters by Jeremy Bill.

Description: New developments in long term care reinsurance.

Description: A summary of polling that took place over the last couple years at SOA events regarding participants roles with respect to in-force management activities.

Description: A summary of sessions sponsored by the Product Development Section at the 2018 Annual Meeting.

Description: Future mortality improvement has been a common assumption in life insurance and annuity pricing and forecasting for many years. However, experience over the last decade suggests this might be an assumption that merits reconsideration in the United States. This article will take a closer look at factors that impact mortality improvement trends and discuss why insurers may want to reevaluate product designs to better manage the associated mortality risk. We then introduce a product idea with this in mind, where premiums are based on a life expectancy index and insurers share the risk (and opportunity) or mortality improvement with policyholders.