Description: This general discussion looks at the results derived from the 15th International Congress of Actuaries and the legislations adopted in Canada and proposed in the U.S. giving favorable tax treatment to pension contributions by the self-employed. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: This discussion on individual insurance policy plans and rates looks at revisions made in mortality, interest and expense assumptions in recent changes in participating and non-participating premiums for life insurance and supplemental benefits. Also discussion of advantages and disadvantages of issuing to women a special life insurance policy, or class of policies. Finally, a discussion of the safeguards placed on the conversion of family income and decreasing term insurance riders to permanent insurance and the experience on such conversions?

Description: This discussion examines new products and marketing issues pertaining to individual life insurance. Topics include: A. Proper role for and impact of higher minimum amount and preferred risk policies. B. Changes made in recent years in the distribution of new issues by plan of insurance and mode of premium payment, C. Advantages and disadvantages of issuing to women a special life insurance policy, or class of policies, involving different basic assumptions from those used for other policies D. Plans marketing policies for which the insurance premiums are paid by 1 bank loans arranged with the assistance of the agent, 2 premium deposit plans, 3 bank drafts and postdated checks.

Description: This is a discussion about the new examination syllabus. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2