Description: This discussion is about the litigation risks pension actuaries face, and the standards of care actuaries should take to protect themselves from malpractice and errors & omissions 'E&O' claims. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 2.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: Table of contents from Vol. 17, No. 2. New York Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17, 1991.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Highlights objectives of the IFAA, the relationship with its 43 member actuarial associations, and current issues under consideration, including: international accounting standards for retirement benefits, other employee benefit costs, and a possible new global education syllabus for actuaries after 2005.

Description: The approach of the year 2000 creates a millennial fascination which causes man to ponder his past, to assess his present, and to peer into his future. This study of the actuarial profession looks upon those design-steering aspects which can lead to a greater future. Although this work adopts the standpoint of a life company actuary, it views the entirety of the profession. All actuaries are bound up in essentially the same future. This study may have special interest to a young person contemplating the actuarial profession as a career. Consequently, an effort is made to consider the subject over the projected career of such a person- roughly to the year 2020. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt.1, No. 76.

Description: Discusses the current status of the valuation actuary concept and regulatory requirements. Also includes historical development of the valuation actuary movement. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This is the index for papers and presentations published in this volume.

Description: Regulators share their perspective on a variety of issues including statutory reserve related issues. From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002

Description: Table of contents for presentations at the October 1986 Annual Meeting.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Topics covered in this session include Internet-based health plan exchanges, defined-contribution health plans, self-directed health plans, personal spending accounts, and episodic based reimbursement to insureds.