SOA 2003 Annual Meeting & Exhibit

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL held on October 26-29, 2003. Please note that some may have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.

• Session #1 GS (Handout Not Available)
• General Session
• Dr. J. Craig Venter
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• Session #3 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Rating and Underwriting of Employer Stop Loss
• Daniel L. Wolak, Achim Matthias Dauser, Stephen J. Gaspar, Gregory J. Sullivan
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• Session #4 PD
• Individual Disability Underwriting Recovery: Has Anything Really Changed?
• Thomas K. Penn–David, William J. Bossi, Richard Noel Ferree, W. Scott Gilliam
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• Session #5 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Trends in Distribution in International Markets
• Shumei R. Kuo, Robert Daly, Luis Huerta–Rosas, Bruce A. Lundeen
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• Session #6 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Equity Analysts Look at Insurers (Still)
• Hubert B. Mueller, Colin Devine, Thomas G. MacKinnon, Steven Schwartz
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• Session #7 BG
• Current Issues in Long–Term Care
• Michael S. Abroe, Timothy Edwin Hale, Vincent L. Bodnar, Allen J. Schmitz, Philip J. Barackman, Daniel Bret Cathcart, James M. Glickman, Peggy L. Hauser, Mark D. Newton, Amy Pahl
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• Session #8 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Do You Know How Much You’re Spending? The Hidden Costs of Product Complexity
• Paul A. Haley, Tom Bakos, Van Beach, Vincent J. Granieri
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• Session #9 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Risk Management through Product Balancing
• Keith A. Dall, Meredith A. Ratajczak, Douglas L. Robbins
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• Session #10 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Changing Patterns of Retirement
• Arnold F. Shapiro, Robert L. Brown, Matt Drinkwater, J. Gary Johnson
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• Session #11 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Pension Plan Investment Strategies
• Mark Rulof, Bill Badger, David S. Hauptman
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• Session #12 CS
• What’s in Your Tool Kit? Information Needs for Managing a Health Plan
• Darrell D. Knapp, Edward G. Bailey, Gordon Russel Hugh, Jed L. Linfield
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• Session #13 CS
• Current Topics in GAAP
• John O. Esch, Deborah Whitmore, Darin G. Zimmerman
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• Session #14 OF
• Presenting to Rating Agencies–Putting Your Best Foot Forward
• John D. Ladley, Steven J. Finn, Dana B. Mehta
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• Session #15 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Genomics and Insurance
• Harry H. Panjer, J. Craig Venter
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• Session #16 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Famous Reinsurance Disasters
• David B. Atkinson, Fazli M. Datoo, Michael W. Pado, John E. Tiller Jr.
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• Session #17 TS (Handout Not Available)
• Data Mining: How to Find Gold
• Ian G. Duncan, Lijia Guo
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• Session #18 TS (Handout Not Available)
• Understanding Delphi Studies
• Curtis E. Huntington, Peter C. Bishop
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• Session #21 SM
• Investment Section Luncheon: The Financial Markets, Diversification and the Cyclical Nature of Investments
• Douglas A. George, Peter Ricchiuti
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• Session #22 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Long–Term Care Section Luncheon
• Phillip Barackman, Michael R. Weinstein
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• Session #25 PD
• Career Pioneer Program
• Marc N. Altschull, Michael M. Braunstein, Sean Patrick Casey, Joseph Paesani
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• Session #26 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Risk Management Task Force Buzz Groups
• David N. Ingrim
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• Session #27 PD
• Long–Term Care Overview for the Non–Specialist
• Philip J. Barackman, Peggy L. Hauser, Andrew J. Herman, Amy Pahl
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• Session #28 PD
• Everything Old Is New Again–The Revival of Traditional Life Products (With a Twist)
• Anne M. Katcher, Jeffrey R. Burt, Christine E. Dugan
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• Session #29 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Emerging Developments in XXX Reserves
• Michael S. Stein, James W. Dallas, Todd Larson, Michael S. Taht
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• Session #30 D
• Equity– Indexed Annuities or Variable Annuities Guaranteed Living Benefits? Which Is Better?
• Noel John Abkemeier, Brent A. Mardis, Douglas G. Wolff
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• Session #31 IF (Handout Not Available)
• The Inside Scoop on New Product/Market Success
• Steve P. Cooperstein, Jay M. Jaffe, Linda Koco, Brian L. Louth
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• Session #32 IF (Handout Not Available)
• Sponsers’ Risk Management and Fiduciary Risk
• Jay C. Miniati, Stephen W. Murray
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• Session #33 IF
• Late–Breaking Developments
• Adrien R. LaBombarde, Gary Howell
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• Session #34 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Current Statutory Reporting Topics for Life and Annuity Products
• Larry M. Gorski, Michael Akers, Jim Renz
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• Session #35 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Analysis of Financial Results
• Stephen G. Hildenbrand, Jeffrey D. Koll, Ralph M. Oversec, Robert W. Welander, Anthony J. Willemin
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• Session #36 OF
• Keys to Successful Financial Management of Disability Products
• Steven W. Schoonveld, James P. DePre, Stephen J. Mitchell, Stephen R. Tenaglio
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• Session #37 TS
• A Predictive Modeling Primer
• John W.C. Stark, Michael Cousins
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• Session #38 WS (Handout Not Available)
• Scenario–Based Planning
• Basha H. Zharnest, David J. Weinsier, Darin G. Zimmerman
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• Session #39 WS (Handout Not Available)
• Health Care Cost Trends–Drivers and Effects
• Lisa F. Tourville, Harvey Sobel
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• Session #40 WS (Handout Not Available)
• Harnessing the Power of Improvisation for Effective Communications
• Simcha A. Segal, Bob Morand
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• Session #41 WS (Handout Not Available)
• Developing and Marketing the Smaller Consulting Practice
• Ian G. Duncan, Ken Lizotte
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• Session #43 PD (Handout Not Available)
• American Academy of Actuaries 2003 Annual Meeting
• Barbara J. Lautzenheiser, Ralph B. Levy
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• Session #44 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Education and Research Section Continental Breakfast
• Curtis E. Huntington
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• Session #45 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Product Development Section Hot Breakfast
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• Session #47 SM/BG (Handout Not Available)
• Reinsurance Section Hot Breakfast
• James W. Dallas, Tara J. P. Hansen, Jeremy Starr
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• Session #49 SM/OF/L (Handout Not Available)
• Computer Science Section Hot Breakfast Acord Data Standards
• Charles S. Linn, Cynthia Jeness, Jacques Rioux, Dean K. Slyter
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• Session #50 SM/BG
• Financial Reporting Section Hot Breakfast
• John Bevacqua, Mark J. Freedman
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• Session #51 SM/IF (Handout Not Available)
• Health Disability Income Hot Breakfast: Experience Study Update
• Warren M. Cohen, Robert W. Beal, Thomas R. Corcoran
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• Session #56 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Rate Stabilization: How Much Risk Has Been Added to Long–Term Care?
• Bruce A. Stahl, Ross J. Bagshaw, Thomas C. Foley, Dennis M. O’Brien
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• Session #57 PD
• Less Underwriting: More Profits or More Problems?
• Carl A. Friedrich, Edward Hui, Douglas A. Ingle
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• Session #58 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Introduction to Deferred Retirement Option Programs
• Thomas B. Lowman, Robert A. Sugarman
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• Session #59 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Does Managed Care Work?
• John P. Cookson, Brian R. Klepper
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• Session #60 I (Handout Not Available)
• Professionalism in the Nontraditional Marketing Context
• Theresa M. Resnick, Lauren M. Bloom, Len Karpowich
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• Session #61 I
• Pension and Financial Product Implications on Public Attitudes to Retirement Plan Design
• Anna M. Rappaport, Steve P. Cooperstein, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Ruth Helman
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• Session #62 OF
• Developments in Consumer–Driven Health Care
• Robert Gordon Cosway, Dean E. Fiscus, Stephen J. Kaczmarek, David M. Tuomala
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• Session #63 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Cutting–Edge Reinsurance Developments
• James W. Dallas, Gregory M. Goodfliesh, Patrick Hennessy, Joseph F. Kolodney, Patrick J. Shannon
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• Session #64 TS
• New and Exciting Instruments for the Bulls and Bears
• Max J. Rudolph, Youngju Lee, Stephen W. Murray
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• Session #65 TS
• "One Shoe Doesn’t Fit All": Using the Appropriate Pricing Measure
• Nancy Westfall Winings, Andrew D. Chua
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• Session #68 PD
• Actuarial Research Meets Actuarial Practice
• Curtis E. Huntington, Thomas N. Herzog, Hal Warren Pedersen
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• Session #69 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Management of International Operations
• Steven I. Schreiber, Jose Luis Berrios–Martin, Wayne D. Bidelman, John E. Hanrahan
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• Session #70 PD
• Retirement Income Options: New Annuity and Life Insurance Products
• Novian E. Junus, Tai Bright, Paul A. Haley
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• Session #71 PD
• SOA Pension Plan Turnover Experience Study
• Edward W. Frees, R. Evan Inglis
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• Session #72 BG (Handout Not Available)
• Latest on AOMR and the 2001 CSO Mortality Table
• Kenton L. Scheiwe, Susan M. Reitz
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• Session #73 IF
• Case Study in Professionalism
• Allan W. Ryan, Tom Bakos, Lauren M. Bloom
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• Session #74 IF
• Alternative Learning–Lessons from Anything and Everything
• Larry J. Jackson, James R. Trefz
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• Session #75 OF
• The Actuary at Risk
• Stuart F. Wason, W. Grant Hardy, Neil H. McKay, Ramy Tadros
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• Session #76 TS
• Relating to Relational Databases
• David L. Snell, Neil Raden
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• Session #79 GS (Handout Not Available)
• Presidential Luncheon
• President Harry J. Panjer passes the gavel of office to Neil A. Parmenter
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• Session #82 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Health Care Affordability–Effect on Employers and the Uninsured
• David V. Axene, Thomas L. Handley, Jonathan A. Myers, Bryan F. Miller
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• Session #83 PD
• Actuarial Pricing for Underwriting and Medical Advances: What Does the Future Hold?
• Paul A. Schuster, Steven C. Ekblad, Ross Morton, Phillip S. Smalley
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• Session #84 PD
• Issues of Importance to Plan Sponsors
• Michael J. Blackburn, Terry L. Mathews
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• Session #85 PD
• The Current Economic Environment and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
• Joseph Austin Applebaum, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Vince Snowbarger
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• Session #86 PD
• The Long–Term Care Insurance Business: Risk and Historical Perspective
• Mark D. Newton, Steven J. Mannik, Jay Newman, Larry H. Rubin
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• Session #87 OF
• Which Distribution Channel Will Win?
• Abraham S. Gootzeit, Michael J. Akers, Arthur J. Mees Jr., Steve Philips
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• Session #88 PD (Handout Not Available)
• Wondering about the Latest in Health–Related Research for Actuaries
• Steven C. Siegel, Corey N. Berger, John I. Mange, Barry D. Senensky
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• Session #89 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Risk Management–Framework in a Life Insurance Company
• Max J. Rudolph, Ellen Cooper, James P. Greaton, Max J. Rudolph
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• Session #90 OF (Handout Not Available)
• The Effect of Changing Demographics on Group Disability Programs
• Steven F. Cyboran, Stephen R. Atkins, Andre C. Baillargeon
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• Session #91 OF
• Risk–Based Capital Requirements on Variable Annuities with Guarantees
• Dominique Lebel, Geoffrey Henry Hancock, Jeffrey A. Leitz
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• Session #92 TS
• Introduction to Credit Derivatives
• Craig Fowler, Michael J. Hambro, Gregory P. Henke, Kevin J. Reimer
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• Session #93 WS (Handout Not Available)
• Current Topics in GAAP
• Robert J. LaLonde, John O. Esch, Deborah Whitmore, Darin G. Zimmerman
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• Session #94 WS
• Hot Topics in Credit Insurance and Debt Cancellation
• Robert J. Butler, Christopher H. Hause
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• Session #95 OF
• Education Redesign Open Forum
• Stuart Klugman, Stephen A. Eadie
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• Session #96 OF (Handout Not Available)
• Health Risk Management Open Forum: Are We on the Right Track?
• John W.C. Stark, Rajeev Maxwell Dutt, Trevor Pollitt
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• Session #97 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Financial Reporting and Investment Section Joint Reception
• Mark J. Freedman, Joseph Koltisko
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• Session #98 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Nontraditional Marketing Section Wine and Cheese Reception
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• Session #100 SM (Handout Not Available)
• International Section Reception Visit to Epcot
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• Session #103 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Management and Personal Development Section Hot Breakfast
• Simcha A. Segal
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• Session #104 SM/IF
• Retirement Systems Practice Area Continental Breakfast: The Future of Retirement Security
• Anna M. Rappaport, Robert H. Stapleford, Anthony Webb
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• Session #105 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Smaller Insurance Company Section Hot Breakfast
• Susan M. Reitz
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• Session #107 SM (Handout Not Available)
• SOA Health Section/AAA Health Practice Council Hot Breakfast
• John P. Cookson, Janet M. Carstens
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• Session #110 GS
• SOA/AAA/CIA General Session
• Lynn Brewer
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• Session #113 PD
• Investment–Related Assumptions
• Ross Bowen, Kurt Karl, John Ryding, Michelle D. Smith
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• Session #114 PD
• The Latest on Executive Retirement Benefits
• Douglas B. Frederick, Scott C. Clausen
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• Session #115 D
• United States Versus Canada–Regulatory Processes
• Keith A. Dall, Jan Graeber Gibson, Miriam Krol, A. David Pelletier
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• Session #116 1/OF (Handout Not Available)
• Professionalism–It’s Every Actuary’s Responsibility
• Carl E. Meier, Barbara J. Lautzenheiser, Mike Lombardi, Neil A. Parmenter
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• Session 117 OF/D
• International Accounting Standards Debate
• Mark J. Freedman, Sam Gutterman, Tricia O’malley, David K. Sandberg
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• Session #118 TS (Handout Not Available)
• Effect of Malpractice Insurance Costs on Health Care Delivery and Health Insurance
• Steven E. Konnath, Tim Barth, James D. Hurley, Liam M. McFarlane, Donald J. Palmisano
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• Session #119 TS
• The Discipline of Getting Things Done
• Daniel L. Shinnick, Dikran Ohannessian, Steven A. Weber
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• Session #120 TS
• As the (Pension Accounting) World Turns
• Kevin J. Shand, Kyle M. Rudden
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• Session #123 GS (Handout Not Available)
• Personalities at Work: Toward a Free Trait Agreement
• Brian R. Little
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• Session #126 PD
• Global Developments in Insurer Solvency Assessment
• Stuart F. Wason, Elizabeth S. Branaum, Harry H. Panjer, David K. Sandberg
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• Session #127 PD
• International Solutions to Financing Healthcare
• Kara L. Clark, Gery J. Barry, Joel Shalowitz, Robert J. Williams
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• Session #128 PD
• It’s Thursday Morning, I Must Be in Seoul
• Rejean S. Besner, Frank J. Buck, Eric D’Amours, Jeremy Goford
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• Session #129 PD
• Investment Performance Attribution
• Joseph Koltisko, Catherine E. Ehrlich, Basil P. Rabinowitz, Fred Shen
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• Session #130 PD
• North and South of the Border–Product Distinctions
• Dominique Lebel, Marc–Andre Brunet, Elinor Friedman, Robert Mallette
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• Session #131 I
• The Funding Methods Are Falling! The Funding Methods Are Falling!
• Kevin J. Shand, Malcolm P. Hamilton, Mark T. Ruloff
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• Session #132 OF
• Reputation Risk Management
• Lynn Brewer
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• Session #133 OF
• Ethics in Financial Reporting
• Darryl G. Wagner, Neville S. Henderson, Josephine A. Robinson
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• Session #134 TS
• Errors and Omissions Liability and Professionalism
• Lauren M. Bloom, Mike Lombardi
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