Description: This 1977 session discusses management of the actuarial resource, primarily in Life Insurance Companies. It includes questions such as: 1. What is an Actuary and What is his Function in a Life Insurance Company? 2. Is there a place for the highly skilled technician who does not care to manage people?

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 session presented at the SOA's 1976 Houston Spring Meeting will describe the basic features of Life Insurance GAAP accounting as applied to stock life insurance companies, both from an accountant's and an actuary's point of view.

Description: Panelists at this session of the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss recent developments in the area of fair-value financial reporting including recent FASB developments, international accounting standards, and different approaches to valuing liabilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting addresses pricing inadequacies that are perceived throughout the industry. Concerns are expressed about assumptions, lack of experience studies, surplus levels, and replacements.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium introduces the Basic Issues and Principles Health Practice Note and provides some background information including cash flow testing, Section 7 opinions and an update on solvency issues.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers financial projections of health coverage including the distinction between short-term and long-term projections and and overview of the handbook entitled The Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Handbook which focuses on dynamic solvency projections.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about Dynamic Solvency Handbook developed by The Financial and Investment Management Practice Education Committee. The handbook is for actuaries who prepare solvency reports, and the targeted completion date was December 31, 1994.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, presented a discussion on developments related to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles- GAAP. The discussion included: FASB reformulation of audit guide, treatment of single premium deferred annuities, problems of applying GAAP principles to Universal Life, and a discussion of papers titled: a. A Policy-Year Model for GAAP Valuation of Coinsurance and Modified Coinsuranee, by David N. Becker and Michael V. Eckman and, b. GAAP for Nonguaranteed Premium Life Insurance, by Kriss Cloninger III.

Description: Discusses underwriting classification trends, term vs. permanent mortality experience with and without medical exams, mortality and lapse experience of military personnel, factors in addition to insurability which should be taken into account by underwriters - such as lapse risk. Also discussed are health underwriting and underwriting expenses.