Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses Unisex legislation in the U.S. Congress on new and existing policies that eliminates gender in life insurance, pensions, health insurance and automobile insurance.

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: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about techniques companies are using to maintain compatibility between investment practices and pricing assumptions for interest-sensitive products: Segregated assets, Use of options/futures, Asset/liability matching, Market value adjustments.

Description: Research managers from prominent non-traditional marketing companies discuss: Structure and composition of research units, methods currently used to conduct research, and specific examples of activities. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] and state regulatory developments, variable product sales results, newer product features, why variable products will be successful, and software assistance for the products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: Article that recaps a SPDA case study in the use of derivatives for ALM that was presented at the Orlando April spring meeting in Session 40, Are We Prepared for Interest Rates to Rise Again.

Description: Recent studies have shown that most Americans are not taking the steps needed to provide for a comfortable retirement. By saving too little and waiting too long to become serious about investing, many baby boomers will need investments with relatively high rates of return to achieve their retirement goals. Historically, such returns have come only from equity based vehicles. This article discusses how Equity-indexed products [EIPs] are well positioned to help address the savings problem.

Description: In session 22 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss a range of issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23. Vol 2.

Description: In session 70PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss tax, statutory, and GAAP accounting issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.