Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings focuses on the sales results for pension trust and profit sharing plans. Also, the shift from Industrial to Ordinary sales and resultant mortality is discussed.

Description: This is a discussion about group life insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 33, this ‘Digest of Informal Discussion’ took place at the 1960 Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Washington, D.C. March 24-25. The focus of the discussion was on the function of the actuary and the insurance company’s public relations, and what the actuary is doing and can do further to improve relations between insurance companies and the public.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Philadelphia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings looks at the pros and cons of a holding company structure for a life insurance company.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of the Monte Carlo technique to a practical situation in a company, group term rate making. It included a discussion of some of the problems encountered and the solution to these problems. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: Discussions from 2 regional meetings of the Society of Actuaries- in Philadelphia and Kansas City concerning 1. the types of options that are provided for retirement under pension plans, the extent to which profit sharing plans are being used to supplement pension plans and 3. the need for nonparticipating group annuity rates.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Philadelphia and Kansas City Regional Meetings is a discussion about product research for life insurance companies, the product development process, and the challenges presented due to ever increasing product offerings.

Description: This session dealt with pension fund investments with respect to the following discussion topics: A. In May, 1962, there was a drastic fall in stock prices. What effect, if any, did this have on a objectives as to the proportion of pension funds invested in equities and b methods of valuing equity pension assets for pension- fund valuation purposes? B. Where pension funds are invested in a pooled or commingled account what special problems are encountered in asset valuation for pension-fund valuation purposes as distinguished from investments held in an individual separate account or trust?

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Consequences of adjusted earnings, 2. The actuary's role in marketing, and 3. Pension legislation- United States. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 75AB.

Description: This paper attempts to develop an actuarial rationalization for the governance of a mutual life insurance company. It addresses setting surplus targets, long term growth objectives, internal performance accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.