Description: This paper outlines the limitations inherent in current actuarial pricing techniques and describes a macro pricing process for product development that can produce optimal decisions in competitive environments. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about a corporate environment with a stated return on equity objective: How does this objective interface with GAAP, statutory profit per unit issued, break-even year, premium or revenue growth, market share and cash flow.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists provided background about the Unified Valuation Law model, how we got here, what's going on today in 1998, and what we can look for in the future.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about statutory and GAAP financial reporting activities of the NAIC, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Actuarial Standards Board, American Academy of Actuaries, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SEC, and the SOA Committee on Actuarial Principles.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 63, December 2005.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about mutual company financial reporting and the basis for internal financial management, which includes modified GAAP approaches as well as value added accounting.

Description: The purpose of this statement is to describe principles and considerations regarding the provision made by insurance organizations relative to life actuarial risks. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about need for internal management reporting on a GAAP-like basis in mutual companies, difficulties in adapting stock GAAP accounting to traditional, participating product lines, need for consistency with pricing/dividend practices, and alternative accounting models - a review of theoretical work and computer modelling of several accounting alternatives.

Description: This presentation is an Interactive Forum, session number 20IF, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss the American Academy’s Valuation Task Force and its committees working on the proposal to revise the Standard Valuation Law, referred to as the Unified Valuation Law [UVL], to update participants as to the status of the committees’ work. They provide a description of the activities currently taking place, and an update of where the revisions process stands and what the next steps are. The current system versus what is proposed are discussed, including concerns of regulators. Discussion from participants is included.