Description: In session 74 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists examine the necessary steps to ensure that both customers and boards are comfortable with the investment activities of mutual fund managers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Panel provides an analysis of legal and actuarial issues which must be considered when modifying an existing retirement program, including the new hybrid plan designs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: From session 43TS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Presenters discuss the growing pressure, due to the globalization of commerce and industry, for a uniform set of worldwide accounting standards, and the form that these standard are likely to take.

Description: This presentation, session number 89PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Panelists discuss issues and challenges facing organizations wishing to sell insurance and financial products over the Internet. Topics include regulatory issues facing on-line marketing and sales initiatives, security of the information provided online, “bought” versus “sold” products, and receptiveness of users. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: This presentation, session number 102PD, took place at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 17-20 in San Francisco. The panelists discuss the characteristics of more popular forms of asset-backed securities, including receivables, home equity loans, home improvement loans, and manufactured housing loans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: Physicians and hospital representatives will discuss their views on health care reform, insurance companies and managed care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Two nonactuarial experts representing opposing health care reform solutions present their alternative views. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: This second session in the two-part series focuses on proposed changes to the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for deferred annuities. Industry experts discuss and debate the necessity for these changes, the issues surrounding them, and their impact on product design. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 148PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists discuss the impacts of adopting the 2001 CSO mortality table, including effects on reserves, cash values, premiums, maximum cost of insurance rates, and corporate and policy taxation. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 8PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.