Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session was about the impact of low interest rates. In 1993 the Moody's Aaa Corporate yields were near 8%. Topics included: 1. The effect by product line on different kinds of business. 2. The effect on merger and acquisition activity. 3. The interaction with tax 4. The interaction with regulatory changes.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting addresses the actuarial aspects of a purchase including the actuarial appraisal, GAAP reporting, statutory valuation, taxation aspects of completing a sale, and considerations in the purchase of a block of business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Panelists discuss various features included in today's executive compensation plans, such as Rabbi trusts and supplemental executive retirement plans [SERPs]. Tax considerations also are discussed. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting provides an update on developments in the fixed, variable and market-value-adjusted annuity markets, including product trends such as compensation, bailouts, guaranties, return-of-premium benefit and roll-up benefit. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.