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: Acquisitions and divestitures present unique challenges to actuaries, both before and after the sale. The panelists at this presentation address the following issues for pension as well as for health and welfare plans: 1. What considerations are there when a company is being bought or sold? 2. Can the buyer and the seller ever agree upon the retiree medical liability? 3. Is the buyer interested in the income statement or the balance sheet? 4. What are some of the hidden liabilities? 5. What regulatory issues need to be considered? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This is a panel discussion about savings and the economy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1967, Vol. 19 Pt. 2, No. 55.

Description: In this session, we will explore investment solutions that aim to maintain the long-term viability of a pension plan, with considerations on hedging interest rates, credit, inflation, longevity and other risks, while accounting for the many particularities associated with underlying liabilities and their corresponding ramifications.

Description: This is a discussion from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting on economic issues and inflation and the decay of the American financial system including debt, the crash in house prices and implications for the insurance industry. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No.1.

Description: Panelists prognosticate about the future in terms of economic and financial scenarios, and future insurance markets, products, and distribution systems. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This is a discussion of indexed coverages for individual contracts. It covers such topics as the history of indexed coverage in the U.S. and Canada and other countries and the possibilities for the ideal fully-indexed permanent life insurance and disability income plans.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session features a discussion by a panel of economists covering likely economic scenarios in the short- and long-term from an international point of view. It will include a provocative look at the possibilities for U.S. economic development in the 1990s and the consequent effects on international conditions.

Description: This article addresses the difficulties of risk modeling in a poor economic environment. The problems include imperfect vendors of data, facing events that have never occurred before, unpredictable consumer behavior, conflicting data sources, and AAA credit doesn't always mean AAA.

Description: In this session, senior pension and insurance investment professionals will share their thoughts on current investment topics. Attendees will hear about leading edge investment ideas and practices from industry leaders.