Description: U.S. actuaries working in Canada are subject to Canadian code of conduct rules. This article explains the operation of the CIA with respect to this issue and compares discipline procedures in the U.S versus Canada.

Description: This panel discussion from the SOA 1976 Houston Spring Meeting focuses on practical considerations in providing services under insured pension plans. The information is organized into home office considerations, field considerations, and external factors such as Enrolled Actuary certifications and outside vendors of pension services. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol.2, No. 2.

Description: The article discusses changes to the Circular 230 regulations that govern practice before the IRS and queries whether the revised regulations will eliminate the use of disclaimers.

Description: AHIP commissioned the Menges Group to write this white paper on key pressures in the budgetary environment that stress the actuarial soundness of Medicaid rates. Though written by non-actuaries, this white paper thoroughly describes key professionalism topics that face Medicaid actuaries in their daily work.

Description: This article from The Actuary, November 1996, Volume 30, No. 9 discusses the value of the actuary. What is our value to our publics? Is it in sheepishly agreeing with statutory impositions -pension plans are a social good that should have favored status as long as they pay their fair share - or is it in sticking to, then clarifying and explaining, our principles regardless of the penalties? Our corporate agreement with the notion that there are “individually realistic actuarial assumptions.”

Description: This article discusses the need for more participation by members in the direction of the profession, particularly in the Society of Actuaries.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the Valuation Actuary, the changing role and the actuarial opinion. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion focuses on the NAIC model illustration regulation and the ASOP. Topics include: Adequacy of the model law, liability of the illustration actuary, and Generally Recognized Expense Table.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session looks at experience with Actuarial Standard of Practice 'ASP' 24 regarding the NAIC Life Insurance Illustration model regulation. Additionally included is a discussion of the NAIC's possible extension of the model to include annuities and variable life insurance. This session also looks at possible revisions to ASP 15.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provides a brief overview and status of a variety of recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners statutory financial reporting developments.