Description: This presentation is a Teaching Session, number 38TS, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The instructors provide an introduction into how complex adaptive systems [CAS] can be applied to solve actuarial problems. They provide a general overview of CAS, including genetic algorithms, neural network, nonlinear modeling, and agent-based modeling, provide recent examples of applications to business problems, and discuss how CAS approaches can be used to address actuarial pricing and valuation issues, such as modeling customer behavior. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: This session discussion is about term insurance developments, product design trends, AIDS considerations, reinsurer's support or lack thereof, recent statutory developments and nontraditional term products. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This discussion is about direct marketing growth in the 1980s, sustaining the growth in the 1990s, regulatory constraints in the 1990s, impact of continuing production cost increases, new product designs, and declining response rate.

Description: This session shows Section Council election results and about the Section Council. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B in Toronto

Description: Feature article discussing how to bring value to clients seeking reinsurance.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session was about defining lifetime marketing, a calculation of the lifetime customer value, and database marketing.

Description: In session 74OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelist discuss the overall structure of management of corporate risk, including asset/liability management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discusses customer relationship management [CRM] including the definition of CRM, why it matters, how to implement it, and how to model a customer and determine the lifetime value of a customer.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Target Markets - true third party, fictitious trust, individuals, Media - mail, television, periodicals, Product choice and design.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about recent trends in direct response marketing. This discussion will be led by two prominent direct response marketing professionals. Their initial remarks will provide a contrast of the growth strategies of a large established direct response company with those of a smaller, more recent entrant into this increasingly competitive market.