Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses the reasons for substantial changes in life insurance pricing philosophy in recent years and their impact on actuaries and companies both now and in the future.

Description: An increasing need exists for the actuary to provide ranges and frequency distributions of possible values instead of providing only mean values. This discussion will cover: projections of asset experience under various economic scenarios, a practical application of profit analysis using scenarios and a deterministic model, exploring possible values by means of stochastic modeling, and a description of the new life contingencies textbook's stochastic approach and application to some practical population and census problems. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This session at the 1982 Society of Actuaries Orlando Spring Meeting offers an update on universal life with respect to product design, pricing, marketing and other issues, based on an industry survey on the topic.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.