Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss currently available data standards, forecasts about the future uses of data standards, and standards being adopted by Information Technology departments.

Description: A discussion on investment strategies and long-term financial planning techniques.

Description: Feature article discussing the complexity of financial markets.

Description: A review of 'Life Contingencies' by Alistair Neill, to be used as a textbook for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries examinations.

Description: Developments in IFRS

Description: This discussion seeks to answer what reserves are required for individual accident and sickness policies, looks at the actuary's responsibility for experience analysis, discusses product development and policy change problems, and examines the major current developments affecting individual accident and sickness insurance.

Description: Notes the seminars were almost totally revamped this year with a focus on developments towards Phase II of IFRS. These were held in Hong Kong, Manila and Taipei.

Description: In this article, we will analyze the recent value investing experience in the Canadian equity market, determine the main macroeconomic variables that drove the value cycle performance in that period, and draw some conclusions about the benefits of style rotation between value- and growth-oriented styles in the management of an investment portfolio.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of the process for setting assumptions for cash flow testing of interest sensitive products for reserve valuation analysis under statutory accounting in the USA and Canadian GAAP.