Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents case studies on the use of technology to solve some of the problems commonly encountered by actuaries in smaller companies.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session provides varying perspectives on corporate approaches to the macro management of risk. In this paper, areas such as risk identification, asset/liability management structure, and secular trend analysis will be discussed.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.

Description: Overview of evolving industry trends and examples of how life insurers in Canada are innovating.

Description: This is intended to serve as a fundamental resource for a basic understanding of ERM, as well as a guide to further study of the subject. Members of the Casualty Actuarial Society have participated in the effort, as well.

Description: Analysis of middle-income market for life insurance by interviewing industry marketing and sales experts.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.

Description: This is intended to serve as a fundamental resource for a basic understanding of ERM, as well as a guide to further study of the subject. Members of the Casualty Actuarial Society have participated in the effort, as well.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion centers on GAAP implementation and some practical issues for FASB Interpretation 40 with regards to mutual insurers.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Discusses demographic and economic change, changes in the market, and the direction of the legislative and legal environment for medical and long term care insurance.