Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the latest additions to the Handbook, recent developments/requirements in Canada, and current research to support the Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Handbook.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about profit analysis and elements of profit such as: interest, mortality, lapse experience, expenses, reinsurance, taxes. It also about use of profit analysis as a business tool to drive management action.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses financial management in the year 2001, which displayed an economic environment unlike that of any year since the 1960s.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Examines the view of life insurance companies and the life insurance industry from the perspective of a rating agency, and discusses recent trends and significant qualitative and quantitative elements of life insurance companies.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about need for internal management reporting on a GAAP-like basis in mutual companies, difficulties in adapting stock GAAP accounting to traditional, participating product lines, need for consistency with pricing/dividend practices, and alternative accounting models - a review of theoretical work and computer modelling of several accounting alternatives.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed the differences in the reporting of product line and source of earnings results between insurers and banks and the practical problems which exist in interpreting gain by source or product-level.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This sessions talks about financial projections as a management tool and tough issues which may have to be addresses in making such projections.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session will examine how insurers monitor product pricing issues through traditional financial reporting information and will also present other management information systems developed to more effectively monitor profitability.

Description: At this presentation from Session 79PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting, the speakers explain the financial risks inherent in the Asian financial crisis and other, more recent crises. They discuss how such risks can affect other countries and regions. They touch on such topics as sovereign risk and currency mismatching. The speakers also comment on impacts on multinational financial services operations and suggest ways for the industry to prevent or better manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.