Description: This panel discussion session examines the marketing and pricing considerations of group insurance in the 1980's.

Description: This is a panel discussion session from the 1980 SOA Fall Meeting. It discusses the North American economy and how the economy will react during the '80s. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the recent economic environment, the changes in household economic activity, the effect of the continued high rate of inflation on the needs and responses of customers of financial security products and participants of non-insured employee benefit plans during their working years. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of inflation on pension plans including legislative reaction, benefits retirement patterns and plan investments.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Experience on group and individual disability insurance has been historically sensitive to economic and demographic trends. In recent years, for example, the restructuring of the health care industry has caused major upheaval for many disability for many disability insurers. The panelists in this session speak in general terms about a variety of trends, such as the stock market, unemployment rates, interest rates, and the aging of the baby boom generation. They then turn specifically to the disability insurance market and speculate on how these trends may affect financial results.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting discusses how the insurance industry will fare under different economic conditions according to an economotric model by Data Resources - DRI. The session also reviews how to incorporate inflation into actuarial calculations and the prospects and possiblities regarding inflation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Panelists of session 159OF of the New York Annual Meeting discuss the challenges of making money in a good economy. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This article was presented at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and addresses the impact of the following changes on future needs for pension coverage, future amounts of pension benefits, and costs of funding.

Description: This panel discussion which was presented at the SOA's 1976 Spring Meeting in Washington D.C. focused on various pension plan issues which have arisen in difficult economic times in the mid-1970's.

Description: This session is about the major factors affecting economic growth in the next five to ten years with major focus on expected population shifts, labor force growth, productivity movement, inflation factors and major components of demand and the outlook for 1980 for wages and prices, and describes how that outlook could be affected by various government policies. An assessment will be provided of the inflation outlook for the decade of the 1980's. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.