Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss new profit measures that are used in the management of the company. The focus is on value-added and risk-adjusted return on capital [RAROC] methods.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session the panelists discussed economic surplus, economic value, and value added in the context of how value added is actually used in a company's compensation system.

Description: This presentation examines the measurement and hedging of synthetic CDO tranche spread risks based on market spread data following the sub-prime crisis. A range of methods proposed for pricing bespoke CDOs are examined to assess their ability to hedge the credit spread risk. The methods assessed are calibrated to the traded CDO index spread and then compared based on the mean absolute pricing errors over a time period including the sub-prime crisis. Standard pricing methods and variations used to price bespoke CDOs generally perform poorly in hedging credit spread risk. Past data can be used to improve the performance of the methods. The results of this analysis also raise concerns with the accuracy of 'mark-to-model' valuations of bespoke CDOs using standard market methods.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the impact of wellness programs on medical plan experience/non-medical plan experience, health status as a pricing variable, likely future developments.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed the proposed standards for determining the economic assumptions for the purposes of measuring pension obligations. The actuary's determination of the interest rate assumption was the primary focus of the discussion.

Description: Panelists in this session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss current embedded value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between embedded value and fair value, and benefits and drawbacks of embedded value, fair value and other measurement systems for internal management purposes.

Description: Discusses good sources of mortality data and possible distortions in the data.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting present methods for scenario generation and establishing stochasitc models for pension plans.

Description: Speakers discuss how to develop alternative or improved processing methodologies to reduce errors, correct error tracking tools, and metrics. Participants discuss balancing reasonable testing given time constraints. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 47IF of the Toronto Spring Meeting

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting describes and discusses methods that are currently used for quantifying credit risk, both from a portfolio perspective and an individual security perspective.