Description: The panelists in this session explore the characteristics of liability cash flows for disability insurance and discuss the implications for a company's investment strategy. Specific topics to be addressed include cash-flow patterns, duration analysis, asset/liability matching and investment strategies.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 67

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how employers are trying to limit their risks under medical care plans and the implications of such strategies for carriers. This session considered the differences in the economic and random fluctuation risks, and the effectiveness of programs in controlling each.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session profiles each market in terms of size, characteristics, experiences and potential, including: capital and other entry requirements, culture and business practices, critical success factors.

Description: Panel discussion of prospects for cost containment of, and alternatives to, fee-for-service health care, and management of health care under national health insurance. Discussion points include cost containment devices, HMOs, economic impact, cost escalation, self-insurance, stop-loss, claims administration, loss of state premium taxes, and Phase 3 tax problems under NH1.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about recent trends in direct response marketing. This discussion will be led by two prominent direct response marketing professionals. Their initial remarks will provide a contrast of the growth strategies of a large established direct response company with those of a smaller, more recent entrant into this increasingly competitive market.

Description: This discussion seeks to answer the following: What new trends in marketing insurance are in prospect for the future? What are the prospects for life insurance to be marketed jointly with fire, casualty, and other lines of insurance? What new trends or innovations are showing up in the field of agency compensation? Is there a trend toward payment of premiums on a monthly basis?

Description: This session discussion is about funding strategies for postretirement health benefits. Topics discussed include VEBAs, 401[h] plans, 501[C]9 plans, stock ownership plans, dedicated profit sharing, HSA, impact to FAS 106 expenses, and investment vehicles. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1B.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The speaker comments that actuaries are well suited for strategic thinking by what they do, noting that “clearly strategy is very heavily involved in trying to understand the external environment and trying to forecast the future in some fashion.” The speaker also sees that “three fundamental factors that will have to be built into everything that we do. These three factors are internationalization or globalization, an understanding of quality, and an understanding of human resource management.” From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed Variable Universal Life Insurance's: History, Product designs and compensation, Regulatory considerations, Marketing considerations, Data processing considerations, Valuation and accounting considerations.

Description: Why Actuaries Should Welcome Automation