Description: Discusses definition of life insurance, exchanges, policy loans, single premium life products, and variable life products. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Presentation at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session will discuss trends in medical technology as they affect health care benefits programs, including: life extension, organ transplants, high-cost procedures, and plan design.

Description: Discusses the implications of the recent Tax Reform Act of 1986 [TRA] and proposed tax laws, and the effect of tax law on financial-performance measures, GAAP reporting, investment strategy, and even corporate structure. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This session was about the impact of pension plan design on investment strategy. The speakers covered a broad philosophical basis, the nuts and bolts of particular pension plan provisions in a defined-benefit area, and executive benefits.

Description: This 1979 panel discussion focuses on Social Security and the possibility for future changes in such areas as financing, retirement age, benefit design, treatment of women, and retirement test.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting looks at issues related to second-hand smoke including the negative health effects and underwriting implications.

Description: This session discusses the results of recent studies, one sponsored the Society of Actuaries, conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates and the Employee Benefits Research Institute EBRI and another conducted by Life Insurance Marketing and Research Asssociation LIMRA, focusing on public knowledge and attitudes with regard to post-retirement risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 9pd.

Description: Panelists discuss programs that provide retirement benefits for executives in the United States and Canada, including the pros and cons of available financing vehicles SERPs and the impact of governmental requirements and proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 114pd.

Description: This session provides attendees with information on the latest available retirement income products, advantages and disadvantages of each and the impact of the low interest rate environment on those products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session 70pd.

Description: From session 63 PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Impact of Regulatory Uncertainty on Product Innovation. Impact of XXX on product design and reserves also discussed. These are Charts 1 & 2 from that session. See separate document for discussion from this presentation.