Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Presenters discuss a method of mortality projection on various scenarios about terrorism that have been written by futurists given the events of Sept. 11. Attendees learn to use a futurism technique scenarios to address actuarial problems.

Description: Colorado Springs SOA meting recap on Futurism's Section presentation on the impact of Terrorism on Future Mortality Assumptions.

Description: This article is all about using assumptions in illustration actuary testing. It starts talking about assumption governance, which applies to illustration actuary models as much as any other models. It then goes on to talk about the particular rules related to assumptions for illustration actuary testing.

Description: Doing Illustration Actuary Testing over the Life of a Policy

Description: This presentation, session number 44PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. “This session identifies meaningful, evolving dramatic insights arising from the studies and techniques of futurism. It shows how such insights are measured and affected by each other and existing dynamics through the use of actuarial models and related tools.” The presentation notes that “future studies basically takes over when the assumption of continuity in models is a weak assumption or in which there is some reason to believe that one might not be able to use the same model throughout the whole forecasting period.” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: A discussion of the work of the Low Interest Environment Team of the Smaller Insurance Company Section including a blog, presentations, and public literature.

Description: This session discussion is about the current offerings to employer groups, policy and pricing considerations and continuing care retirement communities [CCRCs]. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss long-term care insurance from various viewpoints, including the consumer’s desires, needs, knowledge, and interests, intermediaries' role in defining benefits, cost of benefits such as inflation protection and nonforfeiture, financial ability to purchase, buying attitudes of the public for coverage, and trade-offs between price and features. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: Article Description * An update on developments and activities of the Smaller Insurance Company Section, including webinars, research, and an international strategy.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session discussed the SOA research structure and provided an update on projects and experience studies.