Description: Discusses a variety of regulatory issues relative to pension plans, the professional responsibilities of pension consultants, and criteria which should be applied for determining assumptions, actuarial cost method and modifications in evaluating disability benefits. Also discusses determination of qualified actuary to represent client before the IRS.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the draft of the group LTD practice notes, the disabled lives reserve DLR, the IBNR liability, the testing of a company performed at year-end 1992 to determine reserve adequacy and an overview of of the individual disability income IDI practice notes.

Description: Simple mathematical equations often outperform very complex ones in predictive analytics (PA) situations. This session will cover "why" and "how" to guard against overfitting and other potential pitfalls that might not be intuitive.

Description: This discussion is about the basic information on adoption of retirement plan. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 PT 2

Description: Forming a view on what the tail looks like for various risk factors involves both technical know-how and considerable judgment. The presenters focus on what needs to be addressed when setting financial market risk and insurance risk assumptions, in particular when assessing the question of diversification and the treatment of tail dependencies between risks and lines of business:

Description: Over the last few years, many direct companies have started inforce management programs and are now navigating what actions can be taken to optimize the business. At the same time, the legal, compliance, and regulatory environments are also changing. The presenters will explore the development and implementation of programs such as changing non-guaranteed elements or efforts to improve experience while considering the changing compliance environment, including New York Regulation 210, ASOP2 and litigation challenges.

Description: Many SOA members are familiar with the Actuaries' Climate Index, the result of an early and critical effort by North American actuarial organizations to grapple with the impact of climate change on our constituents. But did you know that the SOA continues to produce research on the nexus of environmental issues and the actuarial profession? And did you know that under its Strategic Research Program Initiative, the SOA has elevated its commitment to research through the development of a Climate and Catastrophe research program?

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an introduction and overview to the symposium including several NAIC-related activities, regulation XXX, proposed GGG regulation, and the entire life practice notes at the time.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss currently available data standards, forecasts about the future uses of data standards, and standards being adopted by Information Technology departments.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. In this session, the discussion looks at recent practice areas where actuaries have been involved in litigation. A review for lessons learned is undertaken and measures are examined which may be taken as protection from or to better deal with litigious situations.