Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss the accounting, tax, internal control, and regulatory issues associated with derivative securities and provides an update on recent developments.

Description: At this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting, the current and past presidents of the NAIC relate various activities of the organization including the areas of consumer protection, insurer regulation and speed to market. Interstate Compact as a method for dealing with variations across states in regulation is discussed.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the Standard and Poor's or S&P's rating process, the qualitative and quantitative factors to determine a company's rating. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses recent regulatory and economic developments in Mexico, including but not limited to the devaluation of the peso, an update on NAFTA, the changing market conditions, and an update in privatization of the social security scheme.

Description: In this session 50SM of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists review the results of recent tax court cases that will have an impact on the tax treatment of reinsurance agreements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on individual risk classification including regulation that restricts life and health insurers selection criteria.

Description: This presentation is an overview of the Meeting from the Record of the SOA Vol.6 No. 1. The session summarizes points from each concurrent session of the meeting and includes issues about the effect of governmental actions and consumerism on product design and pricing of the future, risk classification in the 1980's, nonforfeiture and valuation concerns in the 1980's and effect of taxation in the 1980's.

Description: This 1981 session concerned Risk Classification Policy Issues including: i. Purpose of risk classification. 2. Risk classification system. 3. Characteristics for risk classification. 4. Effects of risk classification. 5. Processes of change in risk classification. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting examines the background and reasons leading to recent Canadian and U.S. insurance company failures, covering the roles of management, actuaries, rating agencies, and regulators. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.