Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses different profitability or performance measures for insurance company lines of business, measurement on a statutory or GAAP basis and determining statutory surplus. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting describes the expansion and consolidation of the U.S., Canadian and Mexican life insurance industries and the discusses the top players in the insurance industry in the world and their market share. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Evaluation of the excess mortality element of the Group Conversion charge. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville Regional Meeting focuses on issues for smaller companies associated with moving to the 1958 CSO mortality table, such as policy language, format, mortality assumptions and settlement options.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about the solvency of insurers and their capacity to write business with a concentration on the outside influences on solvency and capacity. The topics covered are regulated rate of return, guarantee funds, availability of capital from public investors, and the measure of solvency.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 3, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in St. Louis June 16-17. In this presentation the panelists address life insurance company expenses. Analysis of expenses, including standards against which they are measured, and expense allocation are discussed. Inconsistencies in allocations for different purposes, e.g. statutory vs. GAAP, and pricing vs. financial reporting, as well as allocation of marketing expenses, are also discussed.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: Discusses how the professional status of consulting actuaries is affected by marketing activities, relationships with agents, brokers and non-actuarial consultants, competition, performing non-actuarial services, client ownership position or board membership, and billing practices.

Description: Discussion of the diversification activities of a number of life insurance companies. This includes the formation of, or acquisition of, property and casualty insurers, variable annuity companies, mutual fund management companies, banks, finance companies, leasing companies, real estate development companies, televisions and radio stations, newspapers, software consultants and other corporate enterprises. Discussion includes: 1. Activities really compatible with the llfe insurance product. 2. Activities otherwise compatible with corporate objectives or offering potentially large profit centers. 3. Activities which can be an excessive drain on corporate earnings and executive manpower 4. The actuary's role in these diversification activities. Then the discussion goes into a discussion of corporate planning models

Description: This discussion at an SOA Regional Meeting covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.