Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1998, Vol. 24, No. 3 - Table of Contents

New York Annual Meeting–October 18-23, 1998

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• Session #3 PD
• A Sure Way to Increase Efficiency: Make Insurance Systems "Speak to Each Other"
• Cheryl A. Krueger, Mark Orlandi, Steve Rydzewski, Michelle D. Smith, and Darin G. Zimmerman
• Session #4 PD
• International Valuation Systems
• Edward J. Freeman, Daniel J. Kunesh, and Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao
• Session #5 PD
• Update on Fair–Value Reporting
• J. Peter Duran, W. Paul McCrossan, Robert R. Reitano, and Wayne S. Upton, Jr.
• Session #6 PD
• The Future of Disability Insurance: Elements of Success
• Robert W. Crispin, Robert B. Pollock, and David E. Scarlett
• Session #7 PD
• *Offshore Life Insurance Markets
• Michael E. Gabon, Kathryn A. Hyland, and Hugh T. McCormick
• Session #8 PD
• Equity–Indexed Products: Managing the Beast
• Andrew S. Chow, Anson J. (Jay) Glacy, Jr., Jeffrey J. Lobo, and Stephen J. Stone
• Session #9 PD
• *How Low Is Low? Current Issues in Low-Cost Product Design
• D. Leigh Harrington, Kevin J. Howard, Nancy J. Kenneally, and Mark A. Milton
• Session #10 PD
• Millennium Underwriting
• Richard L. Bergstrom, Michael H. Gaines, Hank George, and Maureen C. Zupan
• Session #11 PD
• *Current Pension Product and Pricing Development
• Kelly A. Grossman, Aruna Hobbs, Robert G. Lynch, and George S. Quillan
• Session #12 OF
• Market Conduct: A New Actuarial Frontier
• Paul V. Bruce, Marc–Andre Giguere, and Dana Rudmose
• Session #14 TS
• *Credibility and Health Insurance
• Thomas N. Herzog and H. Dennis Tolley
• Session #25 PD
• The Roles of Investment Bankers and Actuaries in Mutual Company Restructuring
• Harris N. Bak, Peter C. Enns, and Robert M. Smithen
• Session #26 PD
• *Lessons From Asia
• Oliver N. Greeves, Angelica B. Michail, Bruce D. Moore, David M. Ruiz, and Steven I. Schreiber
• Session #27 PD
• Group Life: Strategies for Survival
• Thomas R. Corcoran and Ralph Folz
• Session #29 PD
• Critical Illness Insurance–Bringing Life to the Death Insurance Industry
• Emile M. Elefteriadis, Scott K. Luchesi, Rino D'Onofrio, and H. Lynne Patterson
• Session #30 PD
• *Pension Rulings and Regulations Update
• Ethan E. Kra, Max J. Schwartz, and Donald J. Segal
• Session #31 PD
• Mortality and Lapse Rates
• Faye Albert, John M. (Jack) Bragg, and Bruce Leonard Jones
• Session #32 IF
• International Accounting for Insurance
• Morris W. Chambers, Laura J. Benedict-Hay, Robert W. A. Howe, and Scott E. Wright
• Session #33 I
• *Bringing "High-Tech" Training Into Actuarial Education
• Matthew J. Hassett, Edward Scott Mactas, and Jay Rollins
• Session #34 I
• HMOs–The Role of the Actuary
• Karin M. Swenson-Moore, David R. Nelson, Harry L. Sutton, Jr., and Robert E. Wilcox
• Session #35 OF
• Education and Examination Redesign
• Jeffrey A. Beckley, Robert L. Brown, Cecil D. Bykerk, Marta L. Holmberg, and Ann M. Katcher
• Session #36 OF
• Risk Management: A Comparison of Banking and Insurance Industry
• Jack L. Gibson, David N. Ingram, Neal T. Oswald, and Jeffrey Rabb
• Session #46 SM/L
• Organizations That Impact The Financial Reporting World of Life Insurance Actuaries
• William Carroll, R. Thomas Herget, Daniel J. Kunesh, and Patrick J. Shouvlin
• Session #48 OF
• Psychology of Investing
• Judy L. Strachan and Richard H. Thaler
• Session #49 SM
• *Reinsurance Section Speech
• David B. Atkinson, Graham J. Bancroft, amd Paul Nitsou
• Session #50 SM/L
• Be All That You Can Be As An Actuary in a Smaller Insurance Company
• Dennis L. Stanley and John E. Wade
• Session #55 PD
• Physician–Owned Health Plans: Managing the Paradox
• Robert Dannenhoffer, John K. Heins, and Jon Harris-Shapiro
• Session #56 PD
• Bancassurance: A Global Perspective on Customers, Products, and Distribution Methods
• Jacqulynn Abdella, Jeffrey A. Klanderman, John O. Nigh, and James B. Smith, Jr.
• Session #57 PD
• Compliance, Product Filing Efficiencies, Insurance Marketplace Standards Association: What is the Advice of the Regulators and Other Inside Experts?
• Fredric Bodner, Leslie M. Jones, John A. Tak, and Donald J. Walters
• Session #58 PD
• *Corporate–Owned Life Insurance–Trends and Outlook
• Troy Anderson, Wendell Bossen, Steven A. Eisenberg, and W. Tom Wamberg
• Session #59 PD
• The Changing Look of Retirement Plans
• Robert J. Barry, William Torrie, and David A. Yackel
• Session #70 PD
• Treatment of Closed Blocks in Demutualizations
• Janine Cleland, J. Peter Duran, Godfrey Perrott, Barry L. Shemin, and Michael Slipowitz
• Session #71 PD
• *Value-At-Risk: Theory and Practice
• Glyn A. Holton and Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao
• Session #72 PD
• Risk-Based Capital–An Update
• Robert B. Cumming, Burton D. Jay, Donna C. Novak, and Peter Lynn Perkins
• Session #73 PD
• Specialty Health Products–Current Issues
• Charles T. Lanigan, Floyd R. (Ray) Martin, and Jay Power
• Session #74 PD
• Corporate Governance of Investments: Avoiding the Next Class Action Suit?
• William P. Chirolas, Susan M. Ende, Paul J. L'Italien, Michael Roch, and Ronald Jay Rubnich
• Session #75 PD
• It is 1998–Are Your Life Insurance Products Compliant With 7702/A?
• John T. Adney, Cherri R. Divin, K. David Nunley, and Larry N. Stern
• Session #76 PD
• Legal And Actuarial Considerations in Modifying a Retirement Program
• Kyle N. Brown and William Torrie
• Session #77 CS
• *Practical Applications of Derivatives: A Case Study
• Francis P. Sabatini
• Session #80 I
• *Life Insurance and the Internet: What Does the Future Hold?
• Asutosh Chakrabarti, Carol Ann King, Robert Liss, Mark L. Trencher, and Richard K. Walker
• Session #92 PD
• *Internet Insurance Distribution: Regulatory and Logistic Challenges
• Jeffrey A.K. Dick, Robert Proehl, Michelle D. Smith, and Michael Taht
• Session #93 PD
• Once In A Hundred Years
• Faye Albert, Allan Brender, Willis B. Howard, Jr., George G. Pennacchi, Irwin T. Vanderhoof, and Robert E. Wilcox
• Session #94 PD
• Management Uses for Cash-Flow Testing
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• Charts Separate)
• Glen D. Keller, Karen Olsen MacDonald, Francis P. Sabatini, and John S. Tillotson
• Session #95 PD
• Actuarial Review of Long-Term-Care Experience Studies
• Gary L. Corliss, Mark D. Newton, and P.J. Eric Stallard
• Session #96 PD
• *Breakthrough in Lifespan: Fact, Fantasy, or Opportunity?
• Gene Held, Patrick T. Leary, Mark A. Milton, and James O. Mitchell
• Session #97 PD
• *Distribution Compensation: Changing Winds
• Douglas W. Brooks, Ronald G. Burke, Neville S. Henderson, and George P. McKeon
• Session #98 PD
• Plan Design Issues: The Corporate Perspective
• Kenneth D. Cohn, Eric P. Lofgren, and William Torrie
• Session #99 I
• Employment Trends for Actuaries: Jobs For the New Millennium
• Paul V. Bruce, Michael J. Corey, Kelly A. Grossman, and Deborah Murray
• Session #101 OF
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act–One Year Later
• Cecil D. Bykerk, Donna C. Novak, and Julie Walton
• Session #102 OF
• Titanic of Product Development: Avoiding the Iceberg
• Norse N. Blazzard, Brian G. King, and Kevin A. Marti
• Session #103 TS
• *Derivatives in Pension Plans
• Louis D. Finney and Martin Leroux
• Session # 109 SM
• *Product Development Section Speech
• Mark A . Milton and Gregory V. Serio
• Session #100 OF
• Cash-Flow Testing in a Low Interest Rate Environment
• Anson J. (Jay) Glacy, Jr., David K. Sandberg
• Session #111 PD
• *Capital Allocation Among Lines of Business
• David L. Creswell, Timothy Freestone, and Edward L. Robbins
• Session #112 PD
• *Exciting and Hot Investments in Cash-Flow-Testing Context
• Craig Fowler, H. Michael Shumrak, and Larry White
• Session #113 PD
• Update on Mutual Holding Companies
• Jeffrey A. Beckley, Carl M. Harris, E. Tom Hughes, and Thomas P. Tierney
• Session #114 PD
• Update on Risk Adjustment Methodologies
• Richard Averill, John Muldoon, Neela K. Ranade, and Alan Y. Weiner
• Session #115 PD
• Credit Enhancement of Guaranteed Investment Contracts and Funding Agreements
• Carl E. Favelukes, Patricia McWeeney, Victor Modugno, and Jim Peterson
• Session #116 PD
• The "Art" of Alternative Risk Transfer
• William J. Egan, Lawrence D. Kwoh, David K.A. Mordecai, James M. Olivo, and Mary A. Rohe
• Session #117 PD
• Plan Design Issues: The Employee Perspective
• Julie Jarecke Gebauer, Gloria S. Lesmeister, and William Torrie
• Session #119 IF
• A Game of Jeopardy: Smaller Insurance Company Survival for $200
• Keith A. Jensen, Craig F. Likkel, Thomas Stoddard, and
  John E. Wade
• Session #121 OF
• Opportunities in "Under–Penetrated" Disability Markets
• Frederic L. Broers, Wendy Manners, David E. Scarlett, and Daniel D. Skwire
• Session #122 OF
• *Liability-Based Performance Measurements
• Randall L. Boushek, Alton Cogert, Michael J. Murphy, and Francis P. Sabatini
• Session #123 TS
• *Applying Statistical Models to Practical Actuarial Problems
• Arnold F. Shapiro and Virginia Ruth Young
• Session #130 PD
• Financial Reporting for Derivatives
• Anthony Dardis, Gregory P. Henke, and Michael S. Taht
• Session #131 PD
• Using Value-Added Information in Practice
• David M. Brown, R. Karl Erhardt, and Armand M. de Palo
• Session #132 PD
• Actuarial Guideline ZZZ and Option Pricing
• Vincent P. Gallagher, Larry M. Gorski, Thomas S.Y. Ho, Brian Kavanagh, and Joseph H. Tan
• Session #133 PD
• Current Issues in Product Pricing
• Mark F. Mahoney, A. Micheal McMahon, and A. David Pelletier
• Session #134 PD
• Medical Reinsurance–What Has Happened to this Market?
• Michael L. Frank, Kevin K. Gabriel, and Michael R. McLean
• Session #135 PD
• Retirement Plan Design: Case Studies
• Ira G. Kastrinsky and William Torrie
• Session #137 OF
• *The Wall Street Actuary
• Jeffrey A. Jakubiak, Joseph M. Rafson, and V. Michael Shante
• Session #138 OF
• The Unified Valuation System: An Update
• John F. Gies, James F. Reiskytl, and Robert E. Wilcox
• Session #139 OF
• Medicare Supplement–The Latest Scoop
• Dale C. Griffin, Edward Hindin, Jean Lemasourier, and Steven J. Sherman
• Session #140 L
• A Call To Arms: Breaking the Barriers to Life Insurance Distribution Reform
• Derek T. Frost and Carl E. Meier
• Session #147 PD
• Financial Engineers: Who Are These Guys?
• Joseph J. Buff and Scott E. Wright
• Session #148 PD
• Health Employer (Effectiveness) Data Information Set: Does it Work?
• Thomas P. Edwalds, Michael Chernew, Denise Love, Luis Manuel C. Paita, and Dennis P. Scanlon
• Session #149 PD
• Distribution Issues Facing Individual Disability Income Insurance
• Jeffrey S. Kay, Michael B. Koopersmith, and Richard A. Magro
• Session #150 PD
• *Actuarial Principles of Asset–Liability Management
  
• Michael A. Hughes, Frederick W. Jackson, and Joseph H. Tan
• Session #151 PD
• *Managing the Successful Merger of Two Organizations
• Jane Ambrose, Edward B. Martin, Reed P. Miller, and John J. Palmer
• Session #152 PD
• Credit Disability Tables for Pricing and Valuation
• Robert J. Butler, Christopher H. Hause, Steven L. Ostlund, and Craig A. Squier
• Session #153 PD
• An Actuary Reads the Newspaper. What's Between the Lines?
• Mary Hardiman Adams, Robert D. Baus, Douglas C. Borton, Robert J. Curry, and James J. Murphy
• Session #155 D
• Correct Number of Underwriting Classes
• Robert M. Cicchi, Bill Moore, Mary J. Bahna-Nolan
• Session #156 L
• *Computer Models For Retirement Policy Analysis: What Value Can Actuaries Add?
• Christopher M. Bone and Joseph Anderson
• Session #157 OF
• Proposed Changes to the Statutory Risk–Based Capital Requirements
• Robert A. Brown, Joseph L. Dunn, Larry M. Gorski, and Cande Olsen
• Session #158 OF
• Current Issues In Long–Term–Care Insurance
• Michael S. Abroe, James M. Glickman, and Morris Snow
• Session #159 OF
• Adjusting to the Goldilocks Economy
• Noel J. Abkemeier, Bill Cheney, and Robert P. Clancy, and Joan Trapnell
• Session #164 S
• Private Placement Asset Risk and Returns Research Seminar
• Mark Carey, John A. (Jack) Luff, Mark Poeppelman, and Michael L. Zurcher

* The following sessions from the New York Annual Meeting, October 18–23, 1998 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.