Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting addresses issues facing mutual companies concerning the ability to ensure profitable growth. Various strategies discussed include surplus notes, demutualization, merger, and sale/acquisition of blocks of business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting discusses the evolution of techniques in product development for life insurance with a focus on macropricing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists discuss the implications of 9 / 11 , such as disaster planning for business operations, geographic concentrations of risk, terrorism clauses, carrier response, legislative changes that may help carriers limit risk, accidental death-only programs, effects on health and disability costs, changes in practices and changes in claim incurrence and payments patterns. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 128

Description: This paper concerns policyholder dividends on traditional participating life insurance products in regulatory contexts similar to those in the United States and Canada. This paper also touches on annuity products. It was prepared for use in the educational curriculum of the Society of Actuaries. Dividend actuaries seeking references to writings on policyholder dividends to refresh their perspective may also find it useful.

Description: Results of the PBITT Working Group annual Variable Annuity Survey.

Description: This paper concerns policyholder dividends on traditional participating life insurance products in regulatory contexts similar to those in the United States and Canada. This paper also touches on annuity products. It was prepared for use in the educational curriculum of the Society of Actuaries. Dividend actuaries seeking references to writings on policyholder dividends to refresh their perspective may also find it useful.

Description: This panel at the 1982 Society of Actuaries Orlando Spring Meeting focus on the balancing act between growth and sufficient surplus from both a stock and mutual company perspective.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses variable universal life including state regulation, the Security and Exchange Commission - SEC - rules for variable life, taxation, design development considerations, suitable markets and administration. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B in Toronto

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2019 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: This paper defines a concept of equivalence for profit standards. The central principle advanced is that the company should set prices on all its products to produce marginal profits that are equal in proportion to the products' marginal use of surplus. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.