Description: The Chair of the newly formed Modeling Section describes the many different meanings and usages of the word model and various types of models that actuaries may work with. This in turn suggests many possible areas of activity for the new Section of the SOA in sponsoring and delivering professional development to Section members.

Description: This document summarizes a meeting of the Reinsurance Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting consisted of a discussion related to the role and purpose of the section, a discussion of problems and pitfalls related to reinsurance treaties, and discussions related to choosing a reinsurer.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The first speaker discussed the complete solvency testing process and the route by which the valuation actuary arrives at conclusions and prepares a solvency report. The second speaker discussed certain general objectives and requirements of the valuation actuary's report and then indicated how a hypothetical company's sample report was drafted with these points in mind.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is the Canadian session on a report of the status of the Solvency Committee Report.

Description: Recent and pending changes in financial reporting standards and regulations such as IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements are ramping up the performance pressures on actuarial models. New infrastructure technology in the cloud is driving modeling options that may well help actuaries successfully and economically meet these challenges and unlock even greater transformational change.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the topic of current and anticipated future developments of solvency standards in Canada.

Description: Asset modeling is becoming increasingly complex, detailed and important to insurance company financial reporting and risk management. This article describes the author's personal perspective on the current state of asset modeling in insurance companies and the future challenges facing actuaries who develop, maintain and use ALM models.

Description: Full version of Risk Management, March 2007, Issue No. 10.

Description: Actuarial models have always been an important tool for helping companies project future results and understand risks. As complex models have started to become critical components of the reporting and compliance processes, however, models have vaulted to new levels of importance—and of scrutiny. This has raised everyone’s interest in the management of models, and by implication, in their ability to control the inherent model risk. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues of the AIDS/HIV epidemic including the extra mortality, reserving options, a proposed actuarial standard of practice, and also covers the Canadian perspective.