Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting is a teaching session on futures and options, the applications for them, the roles as a strategy tool and hedging risks. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: List of workshop sessions with no written records made

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Structured claim settlement process, Recent developments in taxation, Substandard underwriting, Sources of mortality information, Administration and investments, Valuation, Risks and profit margin.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session debates the following resolution - resolved: the actuary should be required to express an opinion in life insurance company statements regarding the valuation adequacy of projected future cash flows.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Role of solvency surveillance, Role of the valuation actuary, Role of reinsurance, Role of integrated financial services, Role of the American Academy of Actuaries Committees on Life Insurance Company Financial Reporting Principles and on Property and Liability Insurance Financial Reporting Principles.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: AICPA activity in purchase accounting, Merger/Acquisition accounting, Assumption reinsurance, Minority interest accounting alternatives, Foreign mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures accounting, Tax considerations in structuring mergers and acquisitions.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses proposed guidelines, why they are necessary, how ceding companies will be affected, and the impact of recent auditing and U.S. tax law developments.

Description: This session discussion is about the current syllabus, the ideal syllabus and how do we get the current to the ideal. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 11, No. 4A.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session is about actuarial implications of individual choice, antiselection problems for medical coverages, plan design considerations, flexible benefits program experience, impact of alternative delivery systems on insured plan.