Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss consolidation in the reinsurance market, including an overview of recent activity, antitrust considerations, effect on direct writers, and post-consolidation integration issues. Use of the Herfindahl Index as a measure of market concentration is discussed.

Description: The panel at this session of the SOA 1989 Chicago Spring Meeting discusses the mass marketing of individual health insurance, including Section 125 products, trends and problems in direct response, and claim settlement issues.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1995 Vancouver Spring Meeting discuss the major features of the Canadian health care program and the U.S. market, including current deliberations for change. An assessment of how aspects of each country's handling of health care could be applied to the other country is 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: Discusses: [1] the term-insurance marketplace and the reinsurance thereon, both past and present, [2] the changing reinsurer-client relationship, [3] the evolving reinsurance and direct marketplaces, and [4] the interrelationships between those two marketplaces. Significant discussion about AIDS risks in Q&A. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss the future, if any, of defined-benefit pension plans, and whether they have been “legislated” out of existence, in particular the role of the Internal Revenue Service as the primary regulator of pension plans. From the Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.

Description: This material from the 1981 SOA Fall Meeting is a collection of impromptu questions and comments from an Open Forum session on policy loans. The purpose of this session is to discuss the policy loan rates, equity between borrowers and non-borrowers, and equity among groups of policy-owners having different contractual loan rates. The variable loan rate proposal and direct recognition are also covered. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: At this presentation from Session 81PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists examine current issues involving small-employer health reinsurance programs from viewpoints of both the direct writer and the reinsurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 32PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. The concept of data warehousing means different things to different people. For actuaries, the primary focus is on improved access to timely information and applications that enable them to work more efficiently and produce better results. The panelists discuss the business side of data warehouses, noting that the real value in a data warehouse, or in an analytic platform, is whether you can actually use the data after you get it out, and discuss experiences in building data warehouses for actuaries in life and health companies. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.