Description: This is the presidential address by former SOA president, Thomas P. Bowles, Jr. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973, Vol. 25, Pt. 1, No. 73.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings compares variable annuitis and mutual funds from a company and customer standpoint. Other opportunities for selling equity based products as well as the Canadian experience are explored.

Description: If a stock life insurance company is to continue to be an attractive vehicle for stockholder investment, adequate recognition must be given to the importance of the basic economic concept of return on stockholder equity. This Actuarial Note discusses return on stockholder equity as it relates to a life insurance company and is intended to stimulate further thinking in this area. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.

Description: Provides a theoretical basis for determining an insurer's price-earnings ratio, discusses the effect on earnings of changes in investment income, and discusses the effect on surplus and earnings of changes in reserve basis.

Description: This is a discussion about computer modeling as a management tool. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol 21 Pt. 2, No. 59

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discusses marketing issues for life companies including concerns over abandoning the small face amount market and the shift to term insurance from permanent.

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about the appropriate level of unassigned surplus and the rationale and accounting for contingency reserves. The question of a contingency reserve for Phase III tax is also discussed.

Description: This paper attempts to develop an actuarial rationalization for the governance of a mutual life insurance company. It addresses setting surplus targets, long term growth objectives, internal performance accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This is a discussion about insurance company equity products from the viewpoints of the actuary, the agent and the regulatory authority. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 2, No. 59.