Description: This document is an an address presented by the Honorable Dr. Henry Wallich at the April 1976 Washington D.C. meeting on the topic of how to protect savings during a time of inflation.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Explores work to study the mortality experience of the older ages, the mortality costs to the insurer if the absolute level and shape of the pricing mortality curve is incorrect and the value of underwriting with regard to select vs. ultimate mortality.

Description: Presenter discusses some techniques for minimizing and controlling the damage to defined-benefit pension surpluses caused by market forces. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel considered the new European Union and the challenges and opportunities it offers for American insurance and financial institutions. Topics included: 1. Investment challenges and opportunities in the new European Empire. 2. Impacts on the insurance and pension markets. 3. Increased competition from European companies. 4. Hedging with the new currency.

Description: This is the general session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting with keynote speaker, Dr. J. Craig Venter who discusses sequencing the human genome, dog genome and mouse genome and the impact on the practice of medicine. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 In this session, the panelists will discuss effective communication and how to communicate, in particular in the context of presentations, with a focus on 'connecting' with the audience.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss current events in individual life product development, and their impact on product design. Topics include proposed changes to the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for life insurance and annuities, multilife products, product guarantees, and solvency concerns. The Canadian perspective is presented as well. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers individual life products including the state of the market, sales results, new ideas and regulatory developments.

Description: An increasing need exists for the actuary to provide ranges and frequency distributions of possible values instead of providing only mean values. This discussion will cover: projections of asset experience under various economic scenarios, a practical application of profit analysis using scenarios and a deterministic model, exploring possible values by means of stochastic modeling, and a description of the new life contingencies textbook's stochastic approach and application to some practical population and census problems. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: Discusses bond-default history in the United States, implications for insurance-company asset determination, regulatory concerns about recent investing by insurance companies in low-grade bonds, valuation-actuary needs to consider in these cases, and another suggested method for modeling the C-1 Risk in the context of the valuation actuary's cash flow review. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.