Description: This panel at the 1982 Society of Actuaries Orlando Spring Meeting focus on the balancing act between growth and sufficient surplus from both a stock and mutual company perspective.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting focuses on the impact of inflation, economic and social issues on financial reporting, insolvency within the financial security industry, changes in financial reporting and life insurance valuation in the current economic environment. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses the reasons for substantial changes in life insurance pricing philosophy in recent years and their impact on actuaries and companies both now and in the future.

Description: This discussion provides a review of the critical relationships with CPA counterparts on topics such as GAAP, Pension Audit Guide, and the accounting practices for mutual life companies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This is a panel discussion on managing the adequacy of capital by setting capital targets and ensuring targets are met. External capital, performance measurement, and management of inter-company relationships were part of the discussion.

Description: This article is a transcript of a session at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles. It addresses the question of whether traditional valuation principles can provide the same assurance of company solvency as in the past. Discussions include: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP, impact of changing asset values on cash flow and surplus problems.

Description: This paper develops a tool that may be useful in explaining the differences between earnings that are reported under GAAP and profits that are expressed as an internal rate of return.

Description: Article discusses strategies to reduce book value fluctuations due to adoption of FAS 115 and their drawbacks.

Description: In this session, panel members speculate about changes to insurance company taxation, policyholder taxation and insurance product taxation in the 1980's. Both U.S. and Canadian viewpoints are shared.

Description: This is the presidential address by SOA president, Richard S. Robertson. He laments how few actuaries are involved in university actuarial education. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986 Vol. 38.