Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about methods of allocating investment income using the investment year method and the treatment of unrealized capital gains.

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 will explore several critical elements in developing a sustainable and coherent framework to translate complex annuity (VA and FIA) policyholder behavior experience data to assumption models using company- and industry-level data, as well as inforce management techniques to handle related risks.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents an overview of equity-indexed product features and discusses related regulatory issues with respect to illustrations, nonforfeiture benefits and reserving.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents their approach to an integrated risk management framework that assesses the level of risk in the organization and where it lies on the balance sheet.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on effective product management of life insurance. Areas addressed include definition of effective product management, internal organization required, establishment of objectives for a product line, coordination of company activities with respect to initial design, and monitoring.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: Panelists in this session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss current embedded value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between embedded value and fair value, and benefits and drawbacks of embedded value, fair value and other measurement systems for internal management purposes.

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers new innovative capital structures for the life insurance industry and their impact on financial security. A review of different forms of capital plus the economic impact from both a regulatory and rating agency viewpoint are discussed.