Description: This panel at the SOA 1982 Houston Spring Meeting looks at 'current value' and 'constant dollar' accounting as they may apply to life insurance companies. Special attention is devoted to the best measurements of inflation-adjusted life company earnings.

Description: This paper, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ is presented by the SOA’s Committee on Finance Research. This research project, jointly sponsored by the SOA and the Casualty Actuarial Society [CAS], explores economic series and provides an Excel-based tool for generating future economic scenarios. In addition to the paper, which includes an excel workbook containing results of model simulations, there are the following appendices - Appendix A, a 26 page ‘user’s guide,’ Appendix B, a 91 page document entitled ‘Presentations of This Research,’ Appendix C, a zipped file containing hundreds of scenarios i.e., simulation paths of financial and economic variables, generated as output from the Financial Scenario Model, and Appendix D, the model itself in an Excel workbook.

Description: This research report educates the actuarial community about the various shades of the flood risk as well as the state of the art in quantitative flood risk modeling.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting highlights the results of the 1983 Medical Impairment Study, various medical conditions and a comparison to the 1951 study. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: This paper presents a value-at-risk platform for integration of assets and liabilities in a rigorous risk management framework. The model measures all major risks faced by a P&C company. The paper demonstrates how this new technology can be used to assist in maximizing capital efficiency and migrating from a risk management environment governed almost exclusively by ad-hoc rules of thumb to one governed by true risk management principles. From 2006 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, M-AS06-1.

Description: It summarizes the activities that took place on the “Day of reflection and evaluation of insurance in Argentina” held at the School of Economic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (FCE-UBA) on October 17th. The main objective of the Day was to present the progress achieved through the National Strategic Plan for the Insurance Industry (PlaNeS 2012-2020) launched in 2012. The audience included the Superintendent and Vice Superintendent of Insurance, Juan Bontempo and Santiago Fraschina, as well as the Dean of the FCE-UBA, Professor Alberto Barbieri, and authorities of all insurance chambers and industry trade bodies.

Description: This article contains a synopsis of the author's presentation at the 2011 Living to 100 symposium. The presentation discusses the aging of the population in India and its effect on the Indian economy.

Description: This session discusses current trends in retirement decision making, retirement incentives, the impact of conditions in the local and national economy on a person's decision to retire. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session

Description: The Experience Study Rate Errors paper discusses, in depth, the errors that arise from the use of two partial rate years, such as policy years or years of age, to cover one calendar year.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section, the Financial Reporting Section, the Investment Section and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries are pleased to release a new and improved version of the 2005 Society of Actuaries (SOA) Delphi study of four economic variables. Performed by Theodore J. Gordon, the research acquaints actuaries with the application of futures methods that could supplement traditional actuarial forecasting practices.