Description: Presented at June 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses adjustments mutual company actuaries have to make after demutualization: financial reporting, product design and pricing, profit measures, and roles and opportunities.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session looks at the impact of regulation on the management of insurance operations in Asia, with a particular focus on Japan, which this year 1996 introduced its first major insurance law revision in 50 years.

Description: Panel for session 46SM/L of the New York Annual Meeting presents an update on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Accounting Standards Board activities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This is a discussion of the preliminary report of the committee on valuation and related topics. The committee elected to commence its work by examining the fundamental principles of valuation. The traditional issues in the valuation of an insurance enterprise appear within this general framework. The objective of the committee's work is to measure the balance between assets and liabilities in today's volatile economy.

Description: Presented at the March 1975 Spring Meeting. Discusses whether traditional valuation principles can provide as much financial security in the future as in the past, including GAAP, impact of changing asset values on cash flow, and regulatory developments.

Description: Disclosure of pension information to employees, stockholders and government has been a major public issue in the United States in recent years with enactment of the disclosure and reporting provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, more recently, publication of the new accounting and disclosure requirements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. This 1981 discussion session focuses on public disclosure of retirement plans in the United States and lessons that can be learned from experience with Canadian disclosure and reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed how the actuarial profession may contribute to the quantification and management of various types of risks that insurers and other financial service providers assume.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the history and evolution of the NAIC Model Investment Law, its current status, provisions and highlights, and the impact of the proposed law on actuarial practice and life insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

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.