Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session presents techniques and tools for valuing long-term-care insurance for mergers and acquisitions, drivers behind M&A activity in this market, the appraisal process. Specific situations are discussed.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues related to the more direct involvement of actuaries on the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed recent developments in the equity-linked note market. Topics included: 1. New structures that allow active management. 2. Trade-offs affecting participation rates. 3. Accounting issues. 4. Tax issues. 5. Risk-based capital issues.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting has a panel of investment experts that answer investment-related questions from the audience including investment policy for long term care insurance, asset allocation and derivatives. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses financial, strategic, and regulatory issues that arise from the combination of life insurance businesses through merger, acquisition, or reinsurance, with a special focus on the needs of mutual companies.

Description: Discusses the financial-guarantee insurance industry, including: [1] a brief history, [2] types of coverage offered, [3] pricing, reserving, and equity considerations, and [4] applicable regulation. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss operational risk for companies in the asset management business and the operational considerations for mitigating that risk. A specific case of operational failure is explored.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting addresses how to objectively measure a portfolio manager's investment performance, evaluate relevancy of market indices as performance benchmarks for insurance liabilities, and successfully benchmark performance against insurance liabilities.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This teaching session covers course F-585 in the exam materials, which is intended to provide background for the actuary who aspires to become the chief financial officer of a financial institution. It addresses raising capital and financial management.