Description: This article discusses how insurers that focus on their core competencies and astutely outsource other functions will become more competitive and improve their performance.

Description: This article highlights GRET, the Generally Recognized Expense Table, which was included in the Life Insurance Illustrations Model Regulation. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: This is the tenth 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 13 US life insurance companies.

Description: Summary report of the 2005 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. Document contains a description of data used in the study, description of unit cost formulas, list of companies contributing to the study, tables and graphs, etc.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.

Description: Experience-study instructions to contributors. Looks to develop inter-company information about expenses for many types of individual [not group] life and annuity products.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee’s third expense study – the 2003 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: Highlights from the 2002 Inter-Company Expense Study of U.S. Individual Life Insurance and Annuities.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.

Description: Results of the 2005 inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses, CLICE.