Description: ongoing discussion of the proper interest rate to use in discounting liability cash flows to reflect credit risk of the insurer in a fair value accounting system

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 64, March 2006.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

Description: This session discusses Universal Life issues including current and projected sales results, product design, agent's compensation, how companies are pricing products and current Federal Income Tax effect on the product. From Records of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed traditional and modern approaches to actuarial pricing assumptions in a volatile environment.

Description: Panel discusses data mining as the analysis of large databases to identify possible relationships, trends, and other useful information. Much of the session is devoted to Online Analytical Processing [OLAP] and derivative products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses deregulation of life insurance, how much deregulation would be desirable, the regulatory environment in Canada and the desirability of state regulation versus federal regulation. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: The authors set forth a generalized model describing the application of current law [1976 NAIC model Standard Valuation Law and Standard Nonforfeiture Law] to products of the universal life type. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: This paper, originally published in 1992 in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries Vol. 44, deals with a topic that is becoming increasingly important to actuaries in most fields of practice. “Without relying on formulas, this paper presents the important concepts underlying the theory of arbitrage-free pricing of interest-rate-contingent cash flows.” This paper, by James A. Tilley, won the 1992-93 Annual Prize, and the Halmstad Prize for 1992. The paper includes written discussion and the author’s review of the discussions.

Description: This is a panel discussion from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting discusses new technologies that have been implemented by actuaries and how technology could be implemented in actuarial operations. Topics include large data sets, PC's and networks. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.