Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the deregulation that has already occurred within financial industries including banking regulations regarding underwriting and selling insurance and some insight into possible future deregulation.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting is a teaching session on futures and options, the applications for them, the roles as a strategy tool and hedging risks. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the personal financial planning process, including a discussion of the effects of any recent and proposed legislation on individuals.

Description: This paper suggests that two opposing pressures are at work in the United States. One is the limit to the number of retired adults that the nation can support. The other is the growing diversity of needs and desires of older people and employers. These two opposing pressures will frame the issues of the future.

Description: This article is about the very rapid pace of Health care reform on both the national and state level. The challenge is to ensure that viable financing vehicles are developed for cost effective health care delivery.

Description: Discussion of solvency problems and the actuary's role in addressing them in the life insurance industry.

Description: Panel discussion focusing on managing health care costs.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the joint Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Meeting held April 10-11, 1978 in New York City. The panelists discuss a range of topics dealing with risk classification, including retirement benefit plan design considerations, the implications of the federal equal pay act and federal civil rights act, court decisions, possible effects of extension of age discrimination laws, and use of unisex tables, annuity contracts, the impact on health and disability insurance of pregnancy legislation in court decisions, and handicapped person legislation and regulations. Workmen's Compensation, individual life, and individual property and casualty coverages are also discussed. The panelists ask whether the Society of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society should be doing more research. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 4, No. 1.

Description: This 1978 session focused on regulatory considerations in Group Health Insurance focused on the following questions: 1. What is the impact of National Health Insurance and Federal Hospital Cost Control? 2. What is the impact of non-discrimination legislation and regulation? 3. What is the impact of recent OASDI financing changes and changes in mandatory retirement age? 4. What is the future of multi-employer trusts and self-insurance?