Description: Populations are aging throughout the world. In all countries, there are many public policy and social issues related to long life from financing to health to social isolation and system supports. This panel will review key recent research and will offer an interactive discussion of some of the most important issues facing policy makers everywhere. To focus the discussion, we will examine these attributes through the lens of social capital. This session will focus on issues facing both developed and developing countries alike and compare and contrast different approaches being taken to address issues and their relative success.

Description: The panelists in this session discuss the current state of the CI market in the United States and Canada as well as an overview of seveal other countries. Specific topics to be addressed include product features, marketing and producer issues. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 24

Description: This document is a summary of an address given by Dr. Earl Cook, Texas A&M University at the SOA's 1976 Houston meeting. The topic was alternative energy futures for North America.

Description: Discussion of the diversification activities of a number of life insurance companies. This includes the formation of, or acquisition of, property and casualty insurers, variable annuity companies, mutual fund management companies, banks, finance companies, leasing companies, real estate development companies, televisions and radio stations, newspapers, software consultants and other corporate enterprises. Discussion includes: 1. Activities really compatible with the llfe insurance product. 2. Activities otherwise compatible with corporate objectives or offering potentially large profit centers. 3. Activities which can be an excessive drain on corporate earnings and executive manpower 4. The actuary's role in these diversification activities. Then the discussion goes into a discussion of corporate planning models

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at bank ownership and control of insurance companies around the world. Focus is on cultural differences between banking and insurance, regulatory issues, distirubtion, and products.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session on international reinsurance covers the following topics: • Overview of the extent and form of international reinsurance activity. • Reporting, regulatory issues, remittance of payments, and currency exposure. • Accepting reinsurance of business issued in other countries from a US perspective. • Underwriting standards - US versus foreign countries. • Management of foreign risks from a US perspective.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the duties and responsibilities of appointed actuaries, including compliance with qualification standards and actuarial standards of practice. They discuss the United States, where new regulations were recently adopted by the National Association of insurance Commissioners [NAIC], developments in Canada, where new legislation is expected to pass, and also world practice, looking at Europe and the U.K. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This summary of a session at the April 1976 Washington D.C. meeting presents information related to Solvency Standards for Life Companies and issues related to solvency standards and reserves.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting presents various aspects of foreign exchange risk in life insurance company operations, how to measure and adjust for FEX effects, modeling for FEX, effective duration, and accounting for foreign exchange. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: For firms currently operating or desiring to operate internationally, it is important to be able to speak the financial language of the countries they are investigating. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 17PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.