Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting looks at the issue of federal versus state regulation of insurance. Activities of the ACLI to develop an optional federal charter for companies and activities of the NAIC to improve speed to market are discussed.

Description: This panel discussion session presents social indicators using a variety of statistical approaches and relates them to societal changes. The concept of using mortality data as a social indicator is also discussed.

Description: Trade association representatives discuss their role and involvement in the legislative process, and suggest ways in which actuaries can have a greater influence in areas that impact their profession. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panel of this session 57PD of the New York Annual Meeting provides a comprehensive overview and unique insight into various regulatory and compliance issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This 1978 session focused on Group ASO and Minimum Premium Plans. Specific topics included: 1. Background - the need and motivation for adopting such plans, 2. Administrative Services Only Contracts, and 3. Stop-loss provisions.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. President GERALD FORD gave his predictions as to what he thought would happen in Washington on some of the controversial issues that were on the agenda. Topics included taxes, the deficit, defense budget increases, health care reform, international trade, and foreign policy.

Description: This session discussion will review rulings, regulations and announcements which have been issued in the last year. This is intended to be an overview and not a detailed analysis. Focus is on pension plans.

Description: This presentation, session number 80PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the far-reaching, and not fully understood, proposals for fundamentally changing Social Security, including proposals from Congress, private individuals and groups, and by members of the recent Advisory Council on Social Security. They include “privatizing” Social Security, partially or fully, and changing the investment policy to allow trust fund investments in private securities. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 session focused on the relative roles of regulation and the actuary in three countries - the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. It looked at valuation and solvency, contracts, rate control and disclosure. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session deals with the range of loan guarantee programs, program design, pricing and costing of benefits, classification of risks and underwriting, available experience, experience studies and claims management, and actuarial models.