Description: Discusses the pricing issues that, if handled successfully, pave the way for a solid statement of actuarial opinion: coordinating pricing and valuation roles, communicating product specifications, setting mutually acceptable assumptions, reflecting risk in pricing and valuation, coordinating investment policy and interest-crediting policy, and anticipating a volatile economic environment. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion session reported on the status and content of the Actuarial Standards Board standard dealing with the selection of assumptions. The discussion covers what the effects would be on practitioners.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the current and future challenges in the employee benefits area, is the actuarial profession adequately preparing its members to meet those challenges, and do our clients and publics view us as playing a vital role in employee benefits developments.

Description: Table of contents from Vol. 17, No. 2. New York Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17, 1991.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Highlights objectives of the IFAA, the relationship with its 43 member actuarial associations, and current issues under consideration, including: international accounting standards for retirement benefits, other employee benefit costs, and a possible new global education syllabus for actuaries after 2005.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about status of the revision of Recommendation 7, status of the Special Advisory Committee to the NAIC, principles for the valuation of life insurance companies, practical aspects of asset-liability matching.

Description: This is the presidential address at the 1989 SOA Annual Meeting by departing SOA president, Ian M. Rolland. He discusses the strengths of the actuarial profession and professional development needs for the future.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Overview of the valuation actuary's role, Product development implications, Actuarial profession implications, Implications for regulators, Implications for insurance company management.

Description: Complete table of contents for volume 1, number 3 of the 1975 Record of Society of Actuaries. The contents are the presentations from the Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and the Society of Actuaries - Pensions, May 22-23, 1975.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at redirecting the traditional role of the actuary into new areas such as working with doctors to deal with medical management issues, dealing and negotiating with providers and how to help the company develop a provider payment strategy. Employers negotiating directly with providers is also discussed.