2007 Phoenix Life Spring Meeting

Below you will find presentations from various sessions at the SOA Life Meeting in Phoenix, AZ held on May 10–11, 2007. Please note that some have multiple presentations from different authors/presenters and that some are not available.

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• Session #1 Reputation Risk
Scott Newquist, Michel Rochette, Dr. Leslie Gaines–Ross
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• Session #2 Using Quantitative Analysis to Help Set and Monitor Investment
  Robert R. Reitano, Wing Fat Wong
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• Session #3 Market Consistent Embedded Value
  Charles Carroll, Hubert B. Mueller, Vincent Y. Y. Tsang
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• Session #4 Secondary Guarantee UL–Will it Survive
  Michael L. Kaster, Christopher Kite, Michael Symonds
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• Session #5 The Actuarial Standards Board and ASOPs
  Cecil D. Bykerk, William C. Cutlip
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• Session #6 PD: Reinsurance View of Principles Based Reserving
  Arnold A. Dicke, Sheldon D. Summers
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• Session #7 Negotiation Decisions and Influencing Others
  Scott D. Haglund, Peter Francis
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• Session #11 Opening General Session
  Stan Slap
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• Session #13 Advanced Sales: Why Buy Large Face Amount Policies?
  Keith A. Dall
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• Session #14 Retirement Products–How the Insurance Industry Is Addressing Solutions to Longevity Risk
  Christine E. Dugan, John M. Fenton, Kim McSheridan, Stephen Ryan Turer
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• Session #15 Capital Market Solutions for Insurance Companies
  Steven Cooke, John Kiernan, Scott A. Robinson
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• Session #16 Profiting From Economic Outlook
  Steven Lane Craighead, Thomas N. Herzog
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• Session #17 Latest Thinking in Valued–Added Risk Management
  Lijia Guo, Kenneth P. Mungan, Mark J. Scanlon
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• Session #18 Statutory Updates and Principles Based Reserving
  Mike Lombardi, James A. Miles, Thomas Nace, David E. Neve
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• Session #19 Principles Underlying Actuarial Science
  Arnold A. Dicke, Stuart Klugman
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• Session #20 Global Products
  Jennifer L. Healy, William R. Horbatt
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• Session #21 Emerging Career Opportunities for Actuaries
  Laura J. Bennett
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• Session #22 Skills to Make Your Meeting Productive
  Scott D. Haglund, Peter Francis
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• Session #26 Search for Yield in Current Economic Environment
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• Session #27 International Financial Reporting Standards
  Tara J. P. Hansen, R. Thomas Herget, Henry W. Siegel
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• Session #28 Statutory Updates and Principles Based Reserving Workshop
  Mike Lombardi, James A. Miles, David E. Neve, Christopher D. Zuiker
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• Session #29 Retirement Products–How Are We Pricing/Paying For Variable Annuity Risk
  Tze Ping Chng, Douglas L. Robbins, David M. Walczak
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• Session #30 Extreme Events–Those of Most Concern, and How To Mode
  Donald F. Behan, Steven Lane Craighead, Thomas P. Edwalds, Stephen J. M. Mildenhall
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• Session #31 Overview of Credit Insurance and Debt Cancellation Products
  Robert J. Butler, Christopher H. Hause, Harvey J. Waite
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• Session #32 Update on the International Experience Study
  Charles Carroll, Dieter S. Gaubatz, William R. Hobatt
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• Session #33 The Search for Entrepreneurial Actuaries–Part 1
  Dr. Sandra Coyne–Westerkamp, Scott D. Haglund
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• Session #34 Premium Financing, IOLI and the Life Settlement Market
  Frederic J. Gelfond, Anita A. Sathe, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo
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• Session #36 Modeling Equity Markets
  Steven Lane Craighead, Hal Warren Pedersen, Ricahrd M. Urbach
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• Session #37 Update–Recent Tax Guidance for Life and Annuity Insurers and Products
  John T. Adney, John K. Bruins, Douglas N. Hertz, Charles Harvey Miller
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• Session #38 The Search for Entrepreneurial Actuaries–Part 2
  Dr. Sandra Coyne-Westerkamp, Scott D. Haglund
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• Session #39 Retirement Products–Immediate Annuities: Trends in Pricing/Product Design
Mark Leonard, Ken A. McCullum, Robert P. Stone
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• Session #40 ERM Modeling
  Eric J. Carlson, Jeffrey A. Mohrenweiser, Peter Patrino, Marco Groot Wassink
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• Session #41 What´s New in Term Insurance?
  George J. Hrischenko, Dominique Lebel, Donna Christine Megregian, David Wylde
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• Session #42 Structuring Systems for Maximum Performance
  Rob Horner, Kevin J. Pledge, Neil Raden
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• Session #43 Speed Underwriting: At Least 10 New Ideas in 90 Minutes
  Angela Bolduc, Richard Braun, Bill Frank, Michael Gaughan, Hank George, Geoffrey Hakel, David Holton, Jay M. Jaffe, Allen M. Klein, Gary Lee, Juliet R. Sandrowicz, Robert Stout, Ernest A. Testa, Richard Veed
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• Session #50 Taxation Section Hot Breakfast
  John T. Adney, Douglas N. Hertz
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• Session #52 Managing Multiple Report Requirements
  Karen J. DeToro, Michael A. Hughes, Jason A. Morton
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• Session #53 Hot Topics of Interest to Smaller Insurance Companies
  Norman E. Hill, Daniel Theodore, Philip A. Velazquez
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• Session #54 Effectively Explaining Results to Non–technical Audiences
  Darryl G. Wagner, Donna K. Weninger
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• Session #55 Older Age Underwriting
  Leonard Mangini, William Moore, Steve Zimmerman
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• Session #56 Designing the Ideal Investment Policy
  Monde Combe, Charles L. Gilbert, Frederick W. Jackson, Robert R. Reitano
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• Session #57 GAAP Updates
  Steven F. Malerich, Patricia E. Matson, David Y. Rogers
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• Session #58 Indexed Life Products–Should You Join the Club?
  Jeffrey A. Beckley, Jeremy Allen Bill, Robert P. Stone, David J. Weinsier
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• Session #59 LTC/Life/Annuity Combo Products
  Lisa Hayes, Steve M. Largent, Cary O. Lakenbach, Brian E. Millsap
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• Session #60 Emergence of the Chief Risk Officer
  Robert G. Lautensack, Jr., Henry McMillan, Michel Rochette, Sim Segal
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• Session #61 What is Option Pricing and Why Should I Care?
  Chris K. Madsen, Hal Warren Pedersen
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• Session #63 Managing the Indexed Life Line of Business
  Mark E. Alberts, Robert P. Stone, David J. Weinsier
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• Session #64 Integration of Risk Guidelines with Investment Policy
  Chuck Jacobs, Jesse M. Schwartz
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• Session #65 GAAP Updates Workshop
  Steven F. Malerich, Patricia E. Matson, David Y. Rogers
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• Session #66 Shedding Light on the Black Box of Pricing–Advanced Techniques in Pricing
  John Daniel Mahoney, Mark Shickler, Michael S. Taht, Don Wilson
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• Session #67 Worksite Market and Products
  Jeffrey D. Koll, Dominique Lebel, Mark Christopher Massey
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• Session #68 Mega-trends and Mini-pops–Effects on an Actuary´s Future
  Sudha Shenoy
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• Session #69 Starting Your Own Business–Legal and Related Issues
  Inger S. Harrington, David S. Rintoul
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• Session #71 The Actuary´s Role in the Development of Economic Capital
  Christopher Britton, Matthew Clark, B. John Manistre, Marc Slutzky
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