Record of Society of Actuaries 1997, Vol. 23, No. 2 - Contents

Montreal Spring Meeting–June 19–20, 1997

This issue of the Record was edited by:
Gary S. Lange (Chairperson), Rich D. Cruise, James S. Hawke, Chuck Ritzke (Lead Editor), and Max J. Rudolph

• Session #3 PD
• Fixing the Canadian Pension Plan
• Robert L. Brown, Andree Charest, Bernard Dussault, Claude Garcia, Malcolm P. Hamilton
• Session #4 PD
• Anatomy of an Earned–Interest Rate
• Paul A. Hekman, R. Thomas Herget, Thomas R. Kochis, Lawerence R. Zeno
• Session #7 I
• Bancassurance Products
• Jean C. Gora, J. Lynn Peabody, Chris M. Rutten, Oscar Zimmerman
• Session #9 TS
• Introduction to Life Reinsurance 101
• G. Michael Higgins, Dennis W. Loring
• Session #13 TS
• Futurism 101
• Peter C. Bishop, E. Tom Hughes
• Session #14 TS
• Course F–585 "Lite" Financial Risk Management in Banking
• Joseph Koltisko, Dennis Uyemura
• Session #19 PD
• Future of Employee Benefits
• George Amato, Anne McKillips, Dorn H. Swerdlin
• Session #20 PD
• Opportunities for the International Actuary
• Sue Ann Collins, Michael E. Gabon, Martyn Irving Gilling, A. David Pelletier
• Session #21 PD
• Analysis of Profitability by Customer
• Rex Atwood, Nancy W. Church, Vera F. Dolan, David L. Metzler
• Session #22 PD
• Equity-Indexed Products–Design, Pricing, and Hedging (Part I)
• Charlene M. Barnes, Dennis Nelson, Lilia M. Sham
• Session #24 IF
• Joint Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) Society of Actuaries (SOA) Statement of Actuarial Principles
• Arnold A. Dicke, Stuart Klugman, Michael A. Walters
• Session #26 OF
• Selecting and Managing External Investment Advisors
• Walter J. Blasberg, R. Jerome Holman, Ronald J. McHugh, Klaus O. Shigley
• Session #27 TS
• Introduction to Life Reinsurance 201
• Jeremy Starr, Michael S. Stein
• Session #28 TS
• Setting Retention Limits for Individual Life and Disability Income Reinsurance
• Robert W. Beal, Richard Letarte, James L. Sweeney
• Session #37 PD
• Equity-Indexed Products–Design, Pricing, and Hedging (Part II)
• Charlene M. Barnes, Inger S. Harrington, Dennis Nelson, Alan K. Ryder, Lilia M. Sham
• Session #40 OF
• International Aspects of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Accounting
• Frank J. Buck, Daniel J. Kunesh, Dana Lang
• Session #39 IF
• IF Applied Futurism
• Peter C. Bishop, Paul V. Bruce
• Session #41 OF
• The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Statement of Comprehensive Income
• Russell Golden, Allan W. Ryan, Joel Salomon
• Session #42 OF
• Education and Examination Redesign
• Robert L. Brown, Peter Hepokoski
• Session #50 SM
• Reinsurance Tax Court Cases
• Hugh T. McCormick, Jeremy Starr, Diane Wallace
• Session #55 PD
• Keeping Current on Fixed Annuities
• Thomas C. Foley, Timothy C. Pfeifer, Eric T. Sondergeld, Linda S. Streck
• Session #56 PD
• Managing Alternative Distribution Systems
• Douglas A. French, Robert Hatton, Dennis R. Kosavac, Marlene Van den Hoogen, Anthony Vespa
• Session #60 D
• Wanted Dead or Alive: Asset Segmentation
• Helen Galt, Julie L. Haubrich, Francis P. Sabatini
• Session #69 PD
• Status and Impact of the New NAIC Investment Law
• Larry M. Gorski, Mary J. McGinn, Joseph H. Tan
• Session #70 PD
• Equity-Indexed Annuities(EIAs): Accounting, Reserving, and Investment Strategy
• James P. Greaton, Joseph M. Rafson, Edward L. Robbins, Mark Tenney
• Session #71 PD
• The Role of Banks in Insurance Markets
• Nicholas J. Dumbreck, Denis Kaplan, Martin Labarre, Gaetan Nicolas, J. Lynn Peabody
• Session #72 OF
• Trends in Agent Compensation
• Douglas W. Brooks, Albert E. Easton, John Wellborn
• Session #73 OF
• Managing the Actuarial Systems Function
• Larry A. Curran, Mark D. J. Evans, Rob Glazier
• Session #74 OF
• Management of Insurance Company Risk
• David W. Carlson, Gerald A. Lockwood, Alastair G. Longley–Cook, David W. Morris, Kenneth S. Roberts, H. Michael Shumrak
• Session #75 PD
• Financial Economics: With Applications to Investments, Insurance and Pensions
• Harry H. Panjer, Hal Warren Pedersen
• Session #8O F
• A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Reserving Methods and Their Financial Implications
• Thomas G. MacKinnon, B. Dale Matthews, Paul F. Wharram, Henry Yi
• Session #81 PD
• Fixed and Variable Annuity Persistency Experience
• Peter B. Deakins, Don Michalko, Eric T. Sondergeld
• Session #83 D
• Pricing with Mortality Improvements
• Thomas L. Bakos, Robert W. Foster, Jr., Ronald L. Klein
• Session #85 OF
• Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits (GMDB) on Variable Annuities
• Thomas A. Campbell, Stephen J. Preston, Timothy J. Ruark
• *Actuarial Modeling
• James C. Hickman
• **Codification of Statuary Accounting
• Stanton L. Cole, Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao, Robert E. Wilcox
• **Company Performance Measures and Techniques
• Phillip J. T. Cernanec, Douglas C. Doll, Michael McConnell
• **Does the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Offer an Alternative To Reinsurance?
• David Colarossi
• **Individual Life Studies
• John (Jack) A. Luff, Gary N. Sargent
• **New Directions in Actuarial Programming
• Eric Baelen, Philip Gold, Gary Mooney, Zig Swistunowicz
• **Private Placement Asset Risk and Returns Research
• Nicholas Bauer, John (Jack) A. Luff, Kim On Tam
• **Should Smaller Insurance Companies Do Cash-Flow Testing?
• Christian J. DesRochers, Larry M. Gorski, James N. Van Elsen
• **The Fourth Most Populous Country: Indonesia
• Yves Cousineau, Yves G. Guerard, Yves Laneuville, Andre Racine, Irewin Ramedhan
• **Term Wars–Is It Deja Vu?
• David A. Rains, Bradley W. Smith
• **Valuation Task Force
• Craig R. Raymond, Robert E. Wilcox

* Please see "Introduction to Actuarial Modeling", North American Actuarial Journal, July 1997, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 1-5.

**The following sessions from the Montreal Spring Meeting, June 19–20, 1997 will not be available on the Society's web site and will not be available for release to the public. Record sessions must meet certain standards before they can be released to the membership. The recorded version of these sessions failed to meet these standards for a variety of reasons.