Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This study investigates whether simulation-based models can be used to predict liquidity risk for banks, which must comply with Basel III by January 2015. The paper looks at the process of developing a measurement framework using Black-Scholes and Merton’s asset-based models to measure liquidity risk.

Description: This paper discusses the new Basel Accord for Capital Adequacy which refines the minimum capital requirements for banks. The seesion looks at the analysis of credit and market risks with the emphasis on to what extent the collection, storage and evaluation of data calculated with internal approaches is dispensable by the use of Basel II-data for bank banagement.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about life company solvency. The speakers discussed whether they believe the industry has stabilized and gave us their perceptions on what the future holds and what companies can do to remain solvent. Topics included: 1. A quick solvency review. 2. Summary of the Duff & Phelps rating process. 3. The key issue facing the life insurance industry today - real estate. 4. How a rating agency views and uses RBC. 5. How to use ratings or, basically, what ratings are and what they aren't. 6. The future of the life, health, and annuity industry with respect to solvency. 7. The capital markets generally and their view of the life sector specifically.

Description: This paper on bancassurance in India discusses some of the salient developments of banks in India, how the lack of coordination between bank regulation and insurance regulation created confusion in the development of bancassurance, the main problems facing banks in India, and some of the long term drivers of bancassurance in India. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about the actuary's developing role in regulating insurance worldwide.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists present the preliminary report of The Society of Actuaries Task Force for Research on Life Insurance Sales Illustrations, summarizing the results of the task force’s work to date. Acknowledging the near universal belief that current sales illustration practices are inadequate, the panelists, members of the task force, discuss the alternatives to current illustration practices that the task force identified. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. The panel discussed the findings of the Task Force for Research on Life Insurance Sales Illustrations and the direction of regulation in this area. The Task Force recommendations reflected input received from regulators, individual life insurance companies, other insurance professionals and actuaries.

Description: This article from SOA president David Holland, speaks to the need of the actuarial profession to consistently evolve with the needs of the 21st century.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses the current economic situation, demographics and insurance market in other countries. The discussion addresses such issues as the changes in laws and regulations, the economic climate, cultural environments, and other factors affecting insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: In session 7I of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the growth of the cross-selling of financial products in the banking and insurance sectors. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.