Description: This panel at the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discusses how ratings and rating agencies affect health care insurance and related organizations. Advice is offered on maintaining a good relationship with rating services.

Description: Panelists discuss Lloyd's of London, its past difficulties, and its future role in the reinsurance market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss key factors that may affect actuaries of the future. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: In session 103I of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss issues related to the selling of life insurance over the internet. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 128 OF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the advantages available to and the challenges faced by chief or corporate actuaries of life insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 148PD of the Washungton Annual Meeting the Panel discusses changes in current accounting practices and identifies issues that might directly impact actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: By rationing heath care resources, managed-care organizations have raised ethical and legal issues not commonly found under previous health-care-financing structures. Panelists, including a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of the American Medical Association [AMA], and the audience debate this issue. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss recent compensation developments and trends in the financial services industry.

Description: This presentation at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting explains the concept of futures studies as opposed to predicting the future. Various possible future scenarios are discussed especially with respect to the actuarial profession.

Description: This keynote address at the SOA 1998 Maui II spring meeting is a physician's outlook on the state of medicine in 1998, and what might be expected to change and not change in the short term and long term future.