Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters discussed ways in which nontraditional methods of distributing insurance products are continuing to evolve and offered their views on where that evolution may lead for the industry.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: 1994 SOA meeting, Orlando. This session is about the committee's dynamic solvency handbook and their progress to date. Topics discussed: 1. Should this report be a required opinion/report? 2. Should it be an internal confidential analysis? 3. What are the actuary's role and responsibilities?

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session on credit risk presented a comparative survey of recent and ongoing research related to asset credit risk, and it provided analysis of SOA 1986-89 credit risk data.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. In this session Dr. William Freund, chief economist emeritus of the New York Stock Exchange and former chief economist at the Prudential, shared his perspective on the economic outlook.

Description: Physicians and hospital representatives will discuss their views on health care reform, insurance companies and managed care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Two nonactuarial experts representing opposing health care reform solutions present their alternative views. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session was about provider network building in nonmetropolitan areas. Question addressed: 1. How can an effective delivery system be built to serve rural areas? 2. What influence will health care reform have on such systems? 3. Does a single-payer system make sense for such populations? 4. How does health care reform impact nonmetropolitan markets?

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. Panelists discussed actions they have taken or that need to be taken to produce a profitable individual DI product line. Comparisons were made to historical practices and results.