Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed cash-balance pension plans, design variations, rate of interest credit, IRC section 417e problems, and transition from traditional defined-benefit plans.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This panel described the less obvious financial exposures and qualitative issues affecting an insurance company's financial strength. In addition, panelists discussed risk-based capital as a means of solvency assessment.

Description: Panelists discuss the importance of credit-worthiness to the customer of an insurance company, a brief history and description of the Standard & Poor's and Moody's rating systems, the efforts an insurance company goes through in obtaining ratings by outside agencies, the efforts required to maintain the ratings, and the importance of the ratings to the insurance company. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting covers how to manage stress, how stress is related to your working roles and family roles, some of the stresses that men and women face in our society and the differences between the stresses for men and women. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute commissioned this study to highlight the leading emerging technologies that may significantly affect the actuarial profession over a three-year horizon. This study will act as a guide and a resource for actuaries or potential employers to identify the prospective tools to enhance or expand actuarial work, for people collaborating with actuaries who may be affected by these technologies, and for leaders looking to enable teams employing actuaries through the introduction of these tools. It’s noted that actuaries should embrace technologies that enhance the remote working experience within their internal teams and across departments by investigating functionalities beyond messaging and video calls. Actuarial organizations and employers should examine technologies where there is a wide range or gap in maturity and familiarity and evaluate whether a knowledge gap exists and whether any gap is due to lack of education and training.

Description: This teaching session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting introduces Course 220, the syllabus and a more in-depth discussion of some of the topics covered. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.

Description: A controversial alternative to ERISA/FASB actuarial cost methods and assumptions is presented as a challenge from the discipline of financial economics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 37PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation, session number 44PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. “This session identifies meaningful, evolving dramatic insights arising from the studies and techniques of futurism. It shows how such insights are measured and affected by each other and existing dynamics through the use of actuarial models and related tools.” The presentation notes that “future studies basically takes over when the assumption of continuity in models is a weak assumption or in which there is some reason to believe that one might not be able to use the same model throughout the whole forecasting period.” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: The presenter will discuss these issues, the current funding status of defined-benefit plans and the resulting effects on balance sheets, income statements and cash flows. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 32pd.

Description: This session discussion is about SPWL: Is a modified endowment product salable, 7 pay: What sales applications are working best and pricing and administrative compliance issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2A.