Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting focuses on FAS 133, which defines accounting for derivatives, embedded options and hedging activities. Details of FAS 133 and implementation issues are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss various features included in today's executive compensation plans, such as Rabbi trusts and supplemental executive retirement plans [SERPs]. Tax considerations also are discussed. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about modeling investments including the relationship to pricing, modeling techniques, scenario creation, and modeling of collaterized mortgage obligations [CMO].

Description: This session takes a different approach than the similarly named session at the Spring 1988 Meeting. Here, panelists: [1] provide a 'Corporate Planning 101' background, [2] discuss planning surplus, and [3] discuss implementation challenges. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss variable annuity reserving issues with respect to statutory, GAAP and tax. Methodologies and the effect of a proposed Standard of Practice are discussed.