Description: This discussion at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium by a Canadian regulatory panel covers reserves for AIDS, the impact of the proposed Policy Premium Method of reserving, and comments about the governmental examination process.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues of the AIDS/HIV epidemic including the extra mortality, reserving options, a proposed actuarial standard of practice, and also covers the Canadian perspective.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues created by changes in financial reporting in Canada related to the Policy Premium Method and dynamic solvency testing.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings that discusses additional or contract reserves on Exhibit 9.

Description: This paper reports on the findings of a working group established in 1999 by the SOA's Finance Practice Area to look at how the insurance industry measures and monitors risk through risk position reporting. Also the working group established industry standard practices in risk position reporting and reported on a number of areas for possible improvement in such reporting.

Description: This is a compilation or risk management terms garnered from a survey of risk professionals supplemented with analysis of firm-level information on significant risks as reported in 10-K financial statements. Results indicate the existence of significance differences in terminology. The dominating pattern observed is a dichotomy between internal and external perceptions. Also observed is a difference between terms used by actuarial professionals and traditional risk managers.

Description: This paper presents multiple book reviews: Reports from Staff of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Reports in Connection with Social Security Legislation 1975-77, 'Statement on Cost Comparisons of Individual Life Insurance Policies', by Canadian Institute of Actuaries, 'Investment Activities of Life Insurance Companies' from Huebner Foundation Lectures, 'The Life Insurance Industry's Marketing Dilemma' by Johns, 'The Future of Social Security' by Munnell, 'Social Security - Today and Tomorrow' by Ball, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Batten, 'The Crisis in Social Security - Problems and Prospects' by Boskin, 'A History of Interest Rates' by Homer, 'Indexation of Pensions and Other Benefits' by Robert Myers, 'Life Insurance Accounting' by Strain, '1978 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund...' by US Congress. Brief summaries of additional readings are also included.

Description: In this session 100OF of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the major consequences and potential effects of the current economic environment, including the choices of assumption that actuaries should consider in performing cash-flow testing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: In session 132 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the content and status of the draft NAIC Actuarial Guideline ZZZ and the work of the AAA Task Force on Variable Products with Guaranteed Living Benefits. The Black-Scholes option pricing method is also covered. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.