Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about risk-appraisal techniques for the 21st century. Topics Include: 1. Some approaches that companies take and some issues that companies face in establishing preferred-risk underwriting programs. 2. Marketing, product design, and underwriting considerations for joint and second-to-die life insurance products. 3. Establishing assumptions for preferred-risk programs as well as some of the marketplace issues that need to be considered. 4. Expert underwriting systems. 5. The need for consistency in underwriting. 6. Developing trends in testing techniques and how those trends can be utilized in the underwriting process.

Description: Presenters cover the outlook for credit defaults over the next 12 months and approaches used to price the debt market e.g., Merton's 1973 paper and subsequent developments. Attendees leave with an understanding of how the capital markets value debt issuance and knowledge of future trends in default risk. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1: Washington, D.C. Spring Meeting, May 29–30, 2003, Session 10OF.

Description: Discusses: [1] using blood tests effectively to improve mortality results, [2] using expert underwriting systems, and [3] what the future may hold for genetic underwriting. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Examines the view of life insurance companies and the life insurance industry from the perspective of a rating agency, and discusses recent trends and significant qualitative and quantitative elements of life insurance companies.

Description: Panel of session 56PD of the New York Annual Meeting examines a range of issues surrounding bancassurance from both the insurer's and the banker's perspective. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 1.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses the underpenetration of the insurance market in various countries of Latin America. Opportunities via privatized pension plans as well as financial reporting issues are discussed.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. The session focuses on pricing and product design in emerging insurance markets in an inflationary or devaluation-plagued environment.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses recent regulatory and economic developments in Mexico, including but not limited to the devaluation of the peso, an update on NAFTA, the changing market conditions, and an update in privatization of the social security scheme.

Description: This session from the 2005 Life Spring Meeting discusses mergers and acquisitions activity, the factors that may influence the level of M&A activity and the potential opportunities for M&A activity in the marketplace today. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting focuses on reinsurance treaty wording and interpretation with the goal of clearing up as many gray areas as possible. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A