Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.

Description: Digests of following discussions: 1. Mutual life insurance companies - their objectives and operating philosophy 2. State, provincial, and municipal employee pension plans - financing and other problems 3. Mortality and underwriting of individual policies for large amounts 4. Investing during the 1970's 5. Long-range viability and regulation of corporate pension plans 6. Forecasting the environment for business 7. Liabilities and surplus in the 1970's 8. Changing modes of family life - work and income over the life cycle 9. The role of the actuary in collective bargaining 10. Health insurance in the United States 11. Adjusted earnings