Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about redetermination of 'Non-Guaranteed Pricing Elements Recommendations', actuarial responsibilities to the various publics relative to nonguaranteed pricing functions and brief status report on Interim Actuarial Standards Board 'IASB' including how this Committee's Exposure Draft affects the IASB.

Description: Tis is a discussion about many issues related to individual and family major medical insurance including deductibles and coinsurance, experience and trends, coverage for old age and substandard risks, guaranteed renewability for life, limitations for mental illness, and problems in underwriting and claims administration. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1972 – Volume 6, No. 5 that provides an update from the Education and Examination Committee.

Description: This paper presents the commutation functions and net premiums required for reserve calculations with specimen reserve tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists, actuaries who have been successful in nontraditional roles, discuss the process they went through in their career decisions, how they adapted to change, and what they did to achieve success. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This article describes the basic provisions of the restructured fellowship examinations which were presented to the Board of the Society at its meeting in October, 1972 and subsequently approved.

Description: The basic principle introduced in this paper is that the expected value of receipts on any insurance policy is equal to the expected value of payouts. Using an expected value approach, rather than present values, offers an interesting conceptual framework which might provide a possible starting point in risk theory to consider statistical variation about these expected values.

Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on recommended guidelines and practices for determining dividends and illustrations for individual life insurance products, focused on the SOA's Committee on Dividend Philosophy's proposed recommendations. The differences between mutual company and stock company views are explored.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Overview of the valuation actuary's role, Product development implications, Actuarial profession implications, Implications for regulators, Implications for insurance company management.