Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The first speaker discussed the complete solvency testing process and the route by which the valuation actuary arrives at conclusions and prepares a solvency report. The second speaker discussed certain general objectives and requirements of the valuation actuary's report and then indicated how a hypothetical company's sample report was drafted with these points in mind.

Description: This article addresses the concern that while risk assessment models are supposed to help identify and reduce risk, they can be a source of risk themselves. A new report released by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in August 2008 helps address that potential problem by providing useful guidance to actuaries who are charged with designing, implementing and using advanced models.

Description: Actuarial models have always been an important tool for helping companies project future results and understand risks. As complex models have started to become critical components of the reporting and compliance processes, however, models have vaulted to new levels of importance—and of scrutiny. This has raised everyone’s interest in the management of models, and by implication, in their ability to control the inherent model risk. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues of the AIDS/HIV epidemic including the extra mortality, reserving options, a proposed actuarial standard of practice, and also covers the Canadian perspective.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the topic of current and anticipated future developments of solvency standards in Canada.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the Transitional Solvency Provision in Canada in preparation for the adoption of GAAP and the actuary's role in determining TSP.