Description: Guest speaker Fred Carr [notably, of Executive Life Ins. Co.] talks about three risks in the life insurance and financial services industries: interest-rate risk, management risk, and credit-quality risk. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers recent legislative and regulatory developments in the U.S. and Canada including the ownership of the surplus in a pension plan, the CIA discipline process, the Department of Labor's DOL's 'safest available annuity provider' rule and tax issues on deferred compensation plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: This discussion provides a review of the critical relationships with CPA counterparts on topics such as GAAP, Pension Audit Guide, and the accounting practices for mutual life companies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss trends in the administration and design of employee benefit , specifically, hybrid plans and the outsourcing of administration.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses the current economic situation, demographics and insurance market in other countries. The discussion addresses such issues as the changes in laws and regulations, the economic climate, cultural environments, and other factors affecting insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This presentation, session number 80PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The panelists discuss the far-reaching, and not fully understood, proposals for fundamentally changing Social Security, including proposals from Congress, private individuals and groups, and by members of the recent Advisory Council on Social Security. They include “privatizing” Social Security, partially or fully, and changing the investment policy to allow trust fund investments in private securities. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion is about the latest developments in public sector retirement plans including regulatory trends, funding requirements, benefit trends, pressures on assumptions, qualification and the effect of Internal Revenue Code limits. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting presents GAAP for mutual life insurance companies including the implications of FASB issued Financial Interpretation 40, GAAP issues for mutuals, DAC, dividends and FAS 120. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21. No. 2.

Description: This session 151TS of the New Orleans Spring Meetinguses real life examples to demonstrate the more complex collateral types and structures and the risks and rewards of these financial instruments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3.

Description: In session 117 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the status of a study regarding the current valuation methodologies applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance, as well as the legal and regulatory mechanisms through which they are implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.