Description: This panel at the SOA 1982 Orlando Spring Meeting discusses tax parity for individual life insurance companies and products. The focus is on some of the very basic issues of taxation as the industry begins planning for a longer range solution to the issues posed by the current tax structure.

Description: In this panel discussion session, the participants discuss programs to update existing life insurance policyholders, which some companies have implemented in light of rapidly changing economic conditions, namely inflation.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. The Actuary's responsibilities- pensions, 2. Policy loan problems, 3. New forms of group insurance, and 4. Corporate financial management of mutual life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 75AB.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about the appropriate level of unassigned surplus and the rationale and accounting for contingency reserves. The question of a contingency reserve for Phase III tax is also discussed.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on three North American actuarial organizations - Canadian Institute of Actuaries, American Academy of Actuaries, Mexican Actuarial Association - their activities, outlook, and their relationship to each other and the SOA.

Description: This 1981 session dealt with Influencing Legislation and Regulation including: I. The legislative and regulatory processes. 2. What are hearings? What is their purpose, and who participates? 3. A look at how an actuary can affect the process. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This material from the 1981 SOA Fall Meeting is a collection of impromptu questions and comments from an Open Forum session on policy loans. The purpose of this session is to discuss the policy loan rates, equity between borrowers and non-borrowers, and equity among groups of policy-owners having different contractual loan rates. The variable loan rate proposal and direct recognition are also covered. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: The panel discussed conservation strategies for permanent and term insurance. Topics included: 1.Impact on in-force business from new products e.g., continuous reduction in ART rails, non-smoker discounts, universal life: increased policy loans?, replacements?, lapses?, surrenders and _exchanges? 2. Responses from companies: e.g. extension of new cost methods to existing policyholders?, Field compensation when replacing existing business?, internal conservation functions?, update programs policyholder/agent communication strategies? applicability of new products to in-force policyholders. 3. Interest groups which must be considered and differences between stock vs. mutual companies? e.g. Policyholder, agent/broker, management, stockholders, prospective policyholder, legal/regulatory forces IRS, SEC, state insurance departments. 4. Appropriate financial considerations and anticipated results? Is stonewalling a viable alternative? GAAP effects statutory effects use of reinsurance field force compensation/survival, anticipated future mortality results, Federal Income Taxes.