Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on repricing the in-force book of business addressed ASB requirements, data gathering, assumption setting, modeling considerations, coordination with financial areas, par versus interest-sensitive products, and communicating results to management.

Description: Presented at April 1985 April Meeting. This session discussed: Annuities, Non-participating life products, Participating life products, Variable products

Description: Panel discussion about how the Investment Year Method is used with life insurance and annuity products to determine the credited rate, and how market entry has affected investment policy. From the 1979 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 5, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 2003 Washington D.C. Spring Meeting discusses a variety of risks that need to be considered in pricing life and annuity products. This session also reviews the results of the Risk Management Task Force Survey including how companies were measuring profit, how they were reflecting risk in pricing, how results were analyzed and how specific risks were being modeled. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 7PD.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the use of cash-flow testing in product development. Topics addressed: 1. The problem of interest rate risk and its driving forces. 2. The assumptions needed for cash-flow testing. 3. The pros and cons of deterministic versus stochastic testing. 4. The economic quantities measured in cash-flow testing. 5. The the technique of market-value analysis. 6. Research done to apply modem finance theory to determine the net worth of the enterprise in a way that directly demonstrates the financial impact of embedded options in assets and liabilities. 7. The technique of market-value analysis which adopts the innovations of duration/convexity analysis and option-pricing theory and applies these concepts to insurance liabilities. 8. The application of modern finance theory to determine the net worth of the enterprise. 9. A description of different uses of the OAVDE tool.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about techniques companies are using to maintain compatibility between investment practices and pricing assumptions for interest-sensitive products: Segregated assets, Use of options/futures, Asset/liability matching, Market value adjustments.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 The panelists cover: 1 The basic concepts underlying fuzzy logic, 2 Current applications to risk classification and pricing and 3 Future possible uses of fuzzy logic.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session is about pricing life and VA products with untested new features in an uncertain environment.

Description: The session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting focuses on advanced cash-flow techniques, different approaches to incorporate interest sensitivity into pricing and product pricing including option-pricing approaches to asset/liability risk pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.