Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn about tools used to manage enterprise risk and optimize firm value. Potential topics include economic surplus, earnings at risk, and law of one price. Attendees learn how various risk-management tools can complement each other.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists identify the risks and risk-mitigating actions that an insurer can take. Approaches discussed include reinsurance, investment programs and offsetting risks in one product against those in others.

Description: This session 101PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting presents ideas on what causes liquidity concerns and discusses how to model and manage liquidity risk.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 101PD

Description: This session 160 TS of the 2001 SOA Annual Meeting explains Guaranteed minimum income benefits GMIBs, guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits GMABs, guaranteed minimum death benefits GMDBs, and death benefits designed to cover the approximate income tax on the gain in the contract all provide additional protection for the purchaser, but they may also bring added risk to the insurer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 160TS.

Description: The panel discusses: 1. How fund transfers may affect expense recoveries through fee revenue 2.How transfers between fixed and variable funds may impact required capital 3. Product design features that affect the risk profile of the product and 4. Modeling considerations to quantify the policyholder behavior risk. From session 113PD of the 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: In session 74OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelist discuss the overall structure of management of corporate risk, including asset/liability management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about deterioration in claims-paying ability, financial well-being of life insurance companies, benchmark surplus standards, key operation ratios, credit analysis of asset holdings, market view of stock companies, adequacy of capital in the industry, appropriate risk/reward posture in the industry, advice to management, outlook for the various business and views on surplus relief devices. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Table of Contents for the Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 3, No. 1, for the SOA Meeting on Corporate Strategy and Planning held in Atlanta on March 31-April 1, 1977.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. The panel identifies the risks in various life products and the product development actions that can enable an insurer to manage the risks.