Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussion was an overview of the valuation actuary's role, product development implications, actuarial profession implications, implications for regulators, and implications for insurance company management in each country.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: Statutory annual statement, Statement of actuarial opinion for interest-indexed universal life insurance, American Academy of Actuaries Financial Reporting Recommendation 7, Statement of opinion required by New York State for annuity products, Other required statements of actuarial opinion, The Valuation Actuary, Practical techniques and actual experiences.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about status of the revision of Recommendation 7, status of the Special Advisory Committee to the NAIC, principles for the valuation of life insurance companies, practical aspects of asset-liability matching.

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel discussion covers emerging issues in Canadian financial reporting for life insurance companies: new consolidated standards of practice, future financial condition opinion, disclosure of financial information.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discusses the effect on pension plans of mergers and divestitures and looks at the importance of due diligence as part of the process. The discussion also presents the reality of actuaries on trial for negligence.

Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: This session discussed about expected trends in medical care costs, changes in Medicare reimbursement practices and their short- and long-term effects, the emerging responsibility for providing long-term care, rise of managed health care, new and old participants, selection issues, multiple options, and small group market.

Description: Discussion of the attitudes of consumers and consumerists regarding the life insurance industry and its products and a discussion of opportunities for improvement Topics include: 1. Disclosure to existing policyholders 2. Policy loan problems, including the policy replacement problem 3. dividend determination practices and 4. deceptive sales practices in the llfe insurance business.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 This session addressed aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including a discussion of the history and purpose of the act, processes of compliance and their documentation, identification of key controls and testing for key control effectiveness.

Description: Panel discussion on how insurers can deal with the proliferation of laws, court decisions and regulations, and on the outlook for future developments in health insurance regulatory environment.