Description: Examines the extent of practicality for smaller companies to follow the action of some of the larger companies in offering new policy forms and riders such as, Guaranteed Insurability Option on birth of a child, Educational Plans, Father-Son Policies, and Life and Health insurance protection for future children. Also discusses conservation efforts.

Description: This discussion reviewed: A. Measures used by smaller companies to deal with below average policy persistency rates, B. The extent to which smaller companies issue policies with little to no retention for their own accounts, C. The extent to which new lines of insurance, such as accident and sickness, and changing distribution of business by line, plan, or age, have caused reconsideration of qualification bases for agency convention and honor awards.