Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at an overview of developments in 1993 including a regulator's viewpoint of various valuation actuary issues, an update on the valuation actuary and health insurance, current developments in reinsurance that should be considered in the valuation process and a sample actuarial opinion and memorandum.

Description: The session is about maximizing cost efficiency of mainframe computers used at life insurance companies. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This discussion is divided in three sections: Further Application, asking how much accounting can be done on computers. Conversion, looking at further functions integrated into the systems by companies converting to Electronic Data Processing function-by-function and Savings, examining if it is any clearer what the ultimate savings from Electronic Data Processing will be. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.

Description: Underwriting individual disability insurance is a complex process that draws on many different disciplines. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1., session 25 PD of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.

Description: This open forum, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., discussed the future of traditional Society of Actuaries meetings. Topics discussed included: 1. What do Society meetings offer? 2. What else could they offer? 3. What is offered elsewhere in my specialty? 4. How could Society of Actuaries meetings be made more meaningful? A discussion of the special interest sections and seminars on special interest topics was also discussed.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session 46PD, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists, industry and tax leaders, discuss recent, ongoing and potential issues, including initiatives affecting various products and markets, including corporate-owned life insurance [COLI] and business-owned life insurance [BOLI] issues, as well as some of the recent guidance that's been issued that affects Section 412[i] plans. Other topics are Internal Revenue Code Sections 7702 and 7702A, and the 2001 CSO Mortality Table. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session addresses the important elements in designing preferred risk products. Theoretical and pragmatic approaches to establishing a sound policy for setting underwriting requirements and mortality assumptions are discussed, including the real mathematics of preferred risk classification, distribution of risk profiles by age and the key elements of age-specific underwriting.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion centers on GAAP implementation and some practical issues for FASB Interpretation 40 with regards to mutual insurers.

Description: This session discussion is about annuity product developments. The market value adjusted products, non-tax deferred products, non-surrenderable annuities, qualified market developments, effect of non-aggregation rule and variable annuity developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

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?