Description: An outline of a teaching session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000, discussing the evolution toward fair value accounting methodologies

Description: From a panel discussion session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 Panelists discuss the several issues regarding the 2001 CSO table. Attendees explored the implications for statutory reserving in general, implications for reserving under Regulation XXX, implications for the tax definition of life insurance, and other broad strategic issues. The timeframe and adoption mechanics for statutory reserving, tax reserving, and Section 7702 were also discussed.

Description: Discussion of asset coinsurance, including how the arrangements work, risks involved, goals of transactions, relationship issues between the ceding and assuming companies, and regulatory issues.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about regulatory aspects, administrative aspects, financial reporting issues and Canadian products.

Description: Actuaries are increasingly being called upon to advise management about the value of medical management programs and interventions. This session discusses disease management outcome measurements and the cost vs value issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 111

Description: This session exams the SOA Long-Term Care Valuation Table Committee's progress on valuation, reserve adequacy & regulatory issues as well as table construction and implementation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 97

Description: From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 Session topics included model hierarchy, statistical deterministic and stochastic models, real-life situations, how to organize a model effectively, structuring the model to fit the project or report data, sources/integrity techniques documentation, and constraints and limitations on models.

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: Panelists discuss the current implications of the Medicare Modernization Act on employer provided and employer sponsored health plans. Topics include Part D, MAPDs [Medicare Advantage with Part D], attestations, plan options, federal subsidies and current experience. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 108

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses financial management in the year 2001, which displayed an economic environment unlike that of any year since the 1960s.