2004 New York Annual Meeting

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in New York City, held on October 22-24, 2004. Please note that some have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.

• Session #1 SM/BG
• Financial Reporting Section Hot Breakfast
• Mark J. Freedman, Thomas Nace
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• Session #2 SM
• Reinsurance Section Hot Breakfast–Hot Topics
• Denis W. Loring, Susan E. Mack
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• Session #4 GS
• Actuaries in the Face of 21st Century Challenges
• Dr. Peter S. Heller
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• Session #6 PD
• Adding Enterprise Risk Management to the Actuarial Career
• James C. Brooks, Lloyd A. Foster, Margaret Resce Milkint, Sanjay Srivastava
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• Session #7 PD
• Acronym Soup: Fitting the Pieces of the Accounting Regulatory Framework Puzzle Together
• Darin G. Zimmerman, Ed Hardy, John W. Morris
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• Session #8 PD
• Negotiating Contracts in Emerging Markets
• Rejean S. Besner, James Grover, John H. Rooney Jr.
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• Session #9 PD
• Society of Actuaries Long–Term Care Intercompany Experience Studies
• Gary L. Corliss, Roger J. Gagne, Mark D. Newton, Kim H. Tillman
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• Session #10 PD
• Do Not Call/E–mail Legislation Update
• Jay M. Jaffe, Jon Hamilton, Clayton E. Reeves, Tara Reynolds
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• Session #11 PD
• Critical Illness Insurance–A Stroke of Genius?
• Susan Kimball, John S. Cathcart, Marcia C. Johnson
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• Session #12 PD
• Education 2005: An Update From the Pension Perspective
• Arnold F. Shapiro, Andre Choquet, Stephen A. Eadie, Ethan E. Kra
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• Session #13 PD
• Crisis Faced by Multiemployer Pension Plans
• Daniel F. McGinn, Darren Michael French, Nancy R. Wagner
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• Session #14 PD
• Integrating and Aggregating Risks
• Francis P. Sabatini, Ugur Koyluoglu
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• Session #15 IF
• Forecasting Economic Variables Using the Delphi Method
• Steven W. Easson, Peter C. Bishop*
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• Session #16 OF
• The Saturated Disability Insurance Market: Not!
• Warren M. Cohen, Patrick Cassidy, Steven M. Maher, Anita Potter
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• Session #17 OF
• What's New and Exciting With Fixed Annuities?
• Abraham S. Gootzeit, Eric J. Carlson, Dale Humphrey, Richard J. Tucker
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• Session #18 TS
• Playing With Matches: Applications of Record Linkage Techniques and Other Data Quality Procedures
• Thomas N. Herzog
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• Session #19 TS
• Bringing a Health Care Product to Market–A Case Study
• Dawn E. Helwig, Brad S. Linder, Karl G. Volkmar
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• Session #20 TS
• Funds Withheld Embedded Derivatives–One Year later
• Steven D. Lash, William Sofsky, Darryl G. Wagner
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• Session #23 PD
• How do the Analysts View Your Insurance Company?
• David J. Weinsier, Eric Berg, Robert L. Riegel, Rodney A. Clark
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• Session #24 PD
• Contemporary Risk Appraisal
• Mary Ann Broesch, Thomas Ashley, Richard L. Bergstrom, Sharon Smith
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• Session #25 PD
• Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality and Their Impact on Pension Plans and Products
• Robert L. Brown, Victor Modugno
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• Session #26 PD
• Actuarial Nanotechnology: The Science of Small Plans
• Lloyd A. Katz, Mitchell I. Serota, Linda Weiss
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• Session #27 PD
• Quantitative Methods Used in Managing Credit Risk
• Anthony Dardis, Perry D. Mehta, Rishi Kapur, Ugur Koyuoglu
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• Session #28 PD
• The Actuary as Entrepreneur–Growing the Small Actuarial Firm
• Ian G. Duncan, Daniel T. Cox, David C. Florian, Michael S. Miele
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• Session #29 CS
• Innovation in Health Reinsurance Products
• Michael Lawrence Frank, Gordon Russel Hugh
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• Session #30 CS
• Bancassurance–Bank Purchases of Life Insurance Companies
• W. Howell Pugh, Steven D. Lash, Jeffrey S. Schlinsog
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• Session #31 L
• The Present of Futurism
• Curtis E. Huntington, Peter C. Bishop
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• Session #32 OF
• International Accounting Standards–Current Developments
• Mark J. Freedman, Tricia O'Malley, Henry W. Siegel, Sam Gutterman
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• Session #33 OF
• Life Settlements Go Mainstream
• Mark J. Freedman, Tricia O'Malley, Henry W. Siegel, Sam Gutterman
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• Session #35 TS
• Applying Data Mining to Enhance Disability Results
• John D. Houston, Warren M. Cohen, Barry D. Senensky
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• Session #36 WS
• Long–Term Care Rate Increase Filings–Lessons Learned
• Andrew J. Herman, Larry J. Pfannerstill
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• Session #39 RP
• Reinsurance on the Rocks–A Mock Arbitration
• Melville J. Young, Denis W. Loring, Susan E. Mack, Hugh J. McAleer, Oscar R. Scofield, Joann Wagner
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• Session #42 SM/L
• Investment and Management and Personal Development Sections Hot Breakfast: Personality Types of Investment Professionals and Actuaries
• Michael J. O'Connor, Jim Ware
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• Session #43 SM/IF (Handout Not Available)
• Health Disability Income Hot Breakfast: An Investment Analyst's Perspective on the State of Group Insurance
• Warren M. Cohen, Eric Berg
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• Session #44 SM/BG (Handout Not Available)
• Product Development Section Hot Breakfast
• Kevin J. Howard
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• Session #46 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Education and Research Section Continental Breakfast: Research Update
• Mary Rosalyn Hardy, Lijia Guo
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• Session #48 TS
• Actuary of the Future, Management and Personal Development, and Health Sections Joint Hot Breakfast: Actuaries Can Communicate
• Sudha Shenoy, Catherine Konsky, Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Sim Segal
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• Session #50 PD
• Retirement Systems Practice Area Hot Breakfast: Findings and Implications of 2003 Study on Risks and Process of Retirement
• Anna M. Rappaport, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Mathew Greenwald, Ron Hagelman
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• Session #52 PD
• U.S. GAAP Update
• Robert B. Thomas Jr., Michael A. Hughes, Darin G. Zimmerman
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• Session #53 PD
• Life and Annuity Product Development Year in Review
• Nancy Westfall Winings, Christine E. Dugan, Elinor Friedman, Ivan B. Grabowski
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• Session #54 PD
• Where Has All the Capital Gone, and Where Will We Find it Next?
• Graham W. G. Mackay, David Addison, Alex Cowley, Scott A. Robinson
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• Session #55 PD
• A Brave New World: Accounting Standards
• Jeremy Gold, Trevor Harris, Michael Walter Peskin
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• Session #56 CS
• Implementing a Tiered Network Product
• Michael J. Cellini, David V. Axene, Thomas C. Kravis, Mark D. Wernicke
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• Session #57 D
• Debate: Statutory Restrictions (Rules) versus Actuarial Reliance (Principles)
• David K. Sandberg, John A. Hartnedy, Dennis P. Lauzon
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• Session #58 IF
• Industry Update–Is it Time to Enter, Exit or Tread Water?
• Peggy L. Hauser, Loida Rodis Abraham, Carl Austin, Ross J. Bagshaw, James M. Glickman
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• Session #59 TS
• Simplified Issue Life Insurance–Current Practices and Next–Generation Products
• Brian L. Louth, Allen M. Klein, K. Michelle Moloney, Mark Swanson
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• Session #60 TS
• Enterprise Risk Management Tools and Analytics
• Hubert B. Mueller, Samir Shah, Fred Tavan
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• Session #64 PD
• Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions Specialty Reference Book: Meet the Authors
• R. Thomas Herget, Jim Toole, Thomas R. Corcoran, Michael E. Gabon, Alan M. Hines, Kenneth A. LaSorella, Hugh McCormick, Dale H. Yamamoto, Laird D. Zacheis
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• Session #65 PD
• Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (and Hot Topics in Asia and Latin America)
• William R. Horbatt, Jose Luis Berrios-Martin, Ronald A. Colligan, Masaaki Yoshimura,
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• Session #66 PD
• Life Insurance Securitization
• Michael S. Taht, Sean Patrick Casey, Joel Levine, Paul R. Livingstone
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• Session #67 PD
• A Brave New World: Pension Accounting Standards–Testing, Testing (Does This Thing Work?)
• Kevin J. Shand, Bruce Cadenhead, Gerard C. Mingione, Mark T. Ruloff
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• Session #68 IF
• Practice Note Update–Emerging Practice
• Henry B. Ramsey III, Meredith A. Ratajczak
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• Session #69 IF (Handout Not Available)
• Senior Management: What Are They Thinking?
• Daniel L. Shinnick, David B. Atkinson, Patricia L. Guinn, Salim Manzar, Bruce J. Nicholson
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• Session #70 OF
• Public Misperceptions Regarding Retirement Security
• Anna M. Rappaport, Mathew Greenwald, Eric T. Sondergeld
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• Session #71 TS
• Visual Basic for Applications–Black Belt in the Office
• David L. Snell, Charles S. Fuhrer
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• Session #72 TS
• Bootstrap Methods
• Mary Rosalyn Hardy
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• Session #73 TS
• Focus on Smaller Company Products
• Julie A. Hunsinger, Roger K. Annin, Norman E. Hill
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• Session #74 WS
• Selling Skills for Actuaries: Overcome Fear of Making Sales Calls
• Ian G. Duncan, David C. Miller
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• Session #80 PD
• U.S. Statutory Update
• Larry J. Bruning, Dennis P. Lauzon, Edward L. Robbins
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• Session #81 PD
• Implications of the SOP for Internal Replacements
• Barbara L. Snyder, Bradley E. Barks, John W. Morris, Deborah Whitmore *
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• Session #82 PD
• Underwriting Individual Disability Insurance: New Issues and Tools
• Forrest A. Richen, Carl G. Amick, Darren Dombrosky *, Richard A. Magro
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• Session #83 PD
• Hedge Fund Strategies
• Stephen J. Stone, Matt Halperin, David Hopewell
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• Session #84 PD
• Payout and Income Annuities–The Next Big Thing.Again
• Novian E. Junus, Anna Hart, Eric T. Sondergeld
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• Session #85 PD
• Illustration Actuary Update
• Elinor Friedman, Christopher S. Shanahan, Scott J. Witt
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• Session #86 PD
• A Brave New World: Pension Funding Methods
• Kenneth G. Buffin, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Jeremy Gold, Fred W. Munzenmaier
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• Session #87 CS
• From Widgets to Insurance–Applying the Six–Sigma Process
• W. Howell Pugh, David William Dickson, Michele M. Weigand
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• Session #88 D
• Consultants vs. Employee Advocates: Common Goals vs. Different Constituencies
• Thomas B. Lowman, Karen Friedman, Janice Gregory
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• Session #89 IF
• Current Issues Affecting Smaller Company Actuaries
• Patricia E. Matson, Robert B. Crompton, Robert M. Hardy Jr.
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• Session #90 OF
• Recent Mergers and Acquisitions Activity in the Health Arena–Implications for the Future
• Thomas R. Corcoran, Brian A. Kane, Eric L. Smithback
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• Session #91 OF
• Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Forum
• Helene Pouliot, Donald F. Mango
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• Session #92 TS
• Long–Term Care for Non–Specialists
• Amy Pahl, James C. Berger
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• Session #93 WS
• Trends in Individual Health Insurance
• Darrell D. Knapp, David A. Shea Jr.
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• Session #96 PD
• A Brave New World: Pension Funding Methods–Testing, Testing (Does This Thing Work?)
• Kevin J. Shand, Daniel P. Cassidy, Mark T. Ruloff
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• Session #105 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Risk Management Section Hot Breakfast
• David N. Ingram
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• Session #106 SM (Handout Not Available)
• Smaller Insurance Company Section Hot Breakfast
• Terry M. Long
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• Session #108 SM/D
• Health Section Hot Breakfast: Health–Related Election Issues
• Cynthia S. Miller, Darrell D. Knapp, Robert Laszewski
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• Session #110 SM/L
• Computer Science Section Breakfast: Grid Computing
• Philip Gold, Barry Gane, Doug McKenzie, Gaurav Upadhya
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• Session #111 SM/BG (Handout Not Available)
• Long–Term Care Section Hot Breakfast: Current Issues in Long–Term Care
• Mark D. Newton, Philip J. Barackman, Daniel Bret Cathcart, Deborah A. Grant, Peggy L. Hauser, Dawn E. Helwig, Amy Pahl, Andrew M. Perkins, Allen J. Schmitz
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• Session #115 PD
• NAIC Risk Based Capital C3 Phase II
• James W. Lamson, Larry M. Gorski, Meredith A. Ratajczak
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• Session #116 PD
• Investment Issues Facing International Companies
• Joseph Koltisko, Ghalid Bagus, Gregory P. Henke, Frederick W. Jackson
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• Session #117 PD
• What's Backing Your Guarantee?
• Carl A. Friedrich, John P. Glynn, Douglas L. Robbins
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• Session #118 PD
• Life Reinsurance Consolidation–the Ceding Company Perspective
• R. Dale Hall, William J. Briggs, Paul A. Schuster
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• Session #119 PD
• Global Perspectives on Retirement Systems and the Aging Population
• Leslie John Lohmann, Robert L. Clark, John Turner
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• Session #120 PD
• Late–Breaking Developments
• Adrien R. LaBombarde, Janae L. Schaeffer
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• Session #121 PD
• Catastrophic Risk in a Post–9/11 Environment
• Joseph F. Kolodney, Jakob Kolbye, Roger Smith, Tim Tetlow
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• Session #122 OF
• Education Redesign
• Stuart Klugman, Stephen A. Eadie
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• Session #123 WS
• U.S. GAAP Workshop
• Patricia E. Matson, Darin G. Zimmerman
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• Session #126 PD
• Enterprise Risk Management for Health Insurers
• Stuart D. Rachlin, Cheryl A. Krueger, John C. Lloyd, Cynthia S. Miller
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• Session #127 PD
• Reactions to Medicare Reform Legislation
• John S. Cathcart, Dawn E. Helwig, Michael James Thompson, Dale H. Yamamoto
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• Session #128 PD
• Hedging Variable Annuity Guarantees
• Michael J. O'Connor, Brent P. Martonik, Eshwar Narayan, Josie Palazzolo
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• Session #129 PD
• Understanding the Long–Term Care Risk–Underwriting and Claims
• Philip J. Barackman, Caroline D. Lester, John Leo Timmerberg, Mary Ann Wilkinson
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• Session #130 PD
• Term Insurance Update
• Keith A. Dall, Duncan Briggs, David J. O'Brien
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• Session #131 BG (Handout Not Available)
• Focus on Products of Interest to Smaller Company Actuaries
• Julie A. Hunsinger, Roger K. Annin, Norman E. Hill
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• Session #132 OF
• Disability and Group Life Experience Studies: What Have We Learned?
• Thomas R. Corcoran, Robert W. Beal, Roger L. Martin, Susan R. Sames
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• Session #133 TS
• Actuarial Research Meets Actuarial Practice: Mortality Risk Modeling
• Mary Rosalyn Hardy, Samuel H. Cox, Iain D. Currie
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• Session #134 WS (Handout Not Available)
• U.S. Statutory Workshop
• Larry J. Bruning, Dennis P. Lauzon
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• Session #135 WS
• Are Your Standards Standard?
• Paul Meyer, Lauren M. Bloom
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• Session #138 PD
• Equity Product Accounting Approaches
• Jonathan W. Porter, Charles Dana Tatro
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• Session #139 PD
• Variability in Health Care Treatments and Cost
• Lisa F. Tourville, Thomas C. Kravis, Catherine M. Murphy–Barron
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• Session #140 PD
• Better Pricing in an Uncertain World
• Timothy E. Hill, Tim E. Bennett
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• Session #141 PD
• How Long Will We Live in Retirement, and Will We Have Enough Funds?
• William H. Leslie IV, Beverly J. Orth, Anthony Webb
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• Session #142 PD
• Cash Balance and Other Hybrid Plans: Is Anything What it Seems?
• Lloyd A. Katz, Kyle Brown, Thomas B. Lowman
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• Session #143 IF
• Models of the U.S. Health–Care System
• Kara L. Clark, John P. Cookson, Mark E. McGuire, David M. Tuomala
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