Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the speaker provided an overview of derivatives including: 1. Definition. 2. Uses. 3. Types of risks - market, credit, legal, and systems. 4. Risk management. 5. US regulatory guidelines and developments.

Description: A discussion of the changes to the method of grading omitted and erroneous answers on some of the multiple choice Society of Actuaries exams and a discussion as to the equivalence of the methods in determining passing candidates

Description: An increasing need exists for the actuary to provide ranges and frequency distributions of possible values instead of providing only mean values. This discussion will cover: projections of asset experience under various economic scenarios, a practical application of profit analysis using scenarios and a deterministic model, exploring possible values by means of stochastic modeling, and a description of the new life contingencies textbook's stochastic approach and application to some practical population and census problems. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: An article that reprints R. Stephen Radcliffe's, 1993-94 President, address at SOA Annual Meeting New York City on October 19, 1993. Outlined are the challenges facing the actuarial profession and his personal focus of the enhancement of the research and educational efforts of the SOA.

Description: This session at the 1982 Society of Actuaries Orlando Spring Meeting offers an update on universal life with respect to product design, pricing, marketing and other issues, based on an industry survey on the topic.

Description: This article announces that the Society Board has reaffirmed its desire to adopt actuarial principles as statements of opinion by forming a new Committee on Actuarial Principles. The types of principles considered are Basic Principles, Methodology Principles = Techniques, and Behavioral Principles = Standards of Practice.

Description: This article presents an overview of the activities, objectives and recommendations of a joint task force representing several North American actuarial organizations to explore a closer partnership between the academic and actuarial communities.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses various investment risks, monitoring investment performance compared to objectives, measuring investment performance of GIC's, cash flow forecasting and investment programs and objectives. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: An article provides the Presidential Address given by R. Stephen Radcliffe, President, Society of Actuaries Address at Annual Meeting. The Society of Actuaries is emerging as a global player, a significant and challenging role.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.