Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about actuarial standards for product actuaries and Actuarial Standards Board guidelines review. Topics included: 1. ASP 12 on risk classification. 2. ASP 15 on Dividend determination and illustrations for participating life Insurance and annuities. 3. Determination and redetermination of nonguaranteed elements. 4. When to do cash-flow testing. 5. ASP 7 on performing cash-flow testing.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on cash-flow testing for product actuaries covered the following topics: 1. Guidance notes designed to help in writing up reports on cash-flow testing. 2. Investment strategies in product design. 3. Surplus requirements.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The speakers, members of the Pension Committee of the Actuarial Standards Board [ASB], present an update on the ASB’s exposure drafts of actuarial standards of practice intended to provide detailed guidance on setting economic assumptions for pension plans. The session is concerned with selecting actuarial assumptions, specifically economic assumptions, for measuring pension obligations. The speakers note that in addition to providing guidance to actuaries, the standards are designed to help users of our work product understand what actuaries consider in determining their assumptions. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. The Actuary's responsibilities- pensions, 2. Policy loan problems, 3. New forms of group insurance, and 4. Corporate financial management of mutual life insurance companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1974 Vol. 26, Pt. 2D, No. 75AB.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved what to do about a product line that wasn't living up to expectations.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelist discuss recent developments in international accounting standards for insurance and related activities of the International Actuarial Association.

Description: This presentation at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the background and status of the trial compliance questionnaire, which will require the valuation actuary to demonstrate compliance with standards of practice.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers recoverability and loss recognition including using cash flow testing to determine loss recognition or recoverability, actuarial standard of practice 14, and valuation work by line of business or issue-year groups.

Description: NAIC Actuarial Certification requirements for long-term care insurance and ASOP 18, pricing issues. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, April 2001, Issue No. 4.

Description: Consideration of the LTC Actuarial Standard of Practice