Description: This presentation discusses current trends in pension demographics, focusing on mortality and turnover rates. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 4A.

Description: This session is about managed workers' compensation/24-hour health care current activities, legal considerations, casualty actuary perspective, and potential role of utilization review organizations. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about SFAS 97 which is fundamentally focused on the gross profit stream of products like universal life and deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Assumption setting with view to tracking and verification. 2. Level of detail and differentiation between products and cells. 3. Timing issues - model versus financial reporting. 4. Unlocking.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session was about what constitutes a good predictor for modeling. Topics included: 1. Size of model. 2. Lines of business. 3. Purpose. 4. Kinds of models. 5. Accuracy of model versus assumptions. 6. Presentation of results. 7. How to get credibility.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion of U.S. Social Security issues. Questions discussed included: 1. What is the financial status of the Social Security program? 2. What changes have been recently adopted and what changes have been proposed? 3. How would these changes affect the private pension system costs and plan design? 4. What is the proper role of the actuarial profession regarding the Social Security program? Included discussion of the paper, Constant Replacement Ratios in Retirement: A Theoretical Approach,' by Barnet N. Berin and Anthony B. Richter.

Description: This 1978 panel presentation discussed futurism topics and presented the results of a survey on demographic trends conducted by the Committee on Futurism. Key findings of survey comparing mid 1960's with mid 1970's: A. Divorce rate - doubled B. Fertility rate - declined by about one-third C. Mortality - little improvement for the adult ages of 25-64 D. Retirement Age - trend toward early retirement has met a counter force due in part to inflation

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the financial security of retirees including examining the role of personal savings in meeting the financial security needs of retirees. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses the impact of computers of all sizes and types on the environment in which actuaries conduct business from the internal to the external environments. From Record Of The Society Actuaries Volume 9, Number 3

Description: Panel discussion about ways can insurance carriers and health care coalitions work together, what data are coalitions requesting from health carriers, how health carriers respond to those requests, and implications for health carriers.

Description: Speakers discuss how to develop alternative or improved processing methodologies to reduce errors, correct error tracking tools, and metrics. Participants discuss balancing reasonable testing given time constraints. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 47IF of the Toronto Spring Meeting