Description: 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The purpose of this session is to develop a better understanding of how the valuation actuary concept might apply in the property/casualty context by exploring some questions about the concept and its possible application to the property/casualty business.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York Meeting covers future trends in the regulation of life insurance company valuation with an accompanying discussion note, the responsibility of the valuation actuary, the actuarial opinon and the SOA and AAA support of the valuation actuary. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session provided input on the June 9, 1988, draft of a Casualty Actuarial Society Statement of Valuation Principles and the the work product of the CAS Committee on Valuation Principles and Techniques. In addition a comparison of Life and Casualty valuations was provided.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion examined the surplus needs of life insurance companies. Topics included: 1. A status report of Trowbridge Committee on Valuation and Related Matters 2. The purpose of surplus 3. The amount of surplus required for group insurance 4. The amount of surplus required for ordinary and group business with a savings element

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: This statement is an expression of opinion by the Committee on Actuarial Principles regarding the identification of actuarial principles to be considered for adoption by SOA membership. This covers the following types of principles: statistical, economic and financial, modeling, risk management.