Description: Guest speaker Fred Carr [notably, of Executive Life Ins. Co.] talks about three risks in the life insurance and financial services industries: interest-rate risk, management risk, and credit-quality risk. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting covers current reserving requirements for AIDS in the U.S., Canada, and the U. K. Case studies are presented that look at evaluating the AIDS risk and determining the necessary reserves and surplus for the extra mortality.

Description: This panel discussion session is about current activites with respect to Public Relations, Current Academy Activities, Restructuring of Examinations and Division of the Society by Special Interest.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Winter Meeting is about individual retirement accounts: Product and Marketing, Taxation, Reporting and Disclosure, and Roll-overs.

Description: This 1978 session discussed Individual Life Products in the Employee Market including: 1. The current status of the Section 79 market 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept 3. Trends in deferred compensation products 4. Recent activity in key person and split dollar markets.

Description: This 1981 session concerned Risk Classification Policy Issues including: i. Purpose of risk classification. 2. Risk classification system. 3. Characteristics for risk classification. 4. Effects of risk classification. 5. Processes of change in risk classification. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: Discussion of the attitudes of consumers and consumerists regarding the life insurance industry and its products and a discussion of opportunities for improvement Topics include: 1. Disclosure to existing policyholders 2. Policy loan problems, including the policy replacement problem 3. dividend determination practices and 4. deceptive sales practices in the llfe insurance business.

Description: This presentation form the Spring 1976 SOA Meeting covers practical considerations in providing services under insured pension plans session. Topics included: Organization of a Servicing Operation, Scope of Services, Commissions and Fees, Enrolled Actuary Certification and Outside Vendors.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: The objective of this paper is to analyze the nature of the probability density function of rates of return on common stocks, to develop a simulation model for evaluating the net risk premium for an asset value guarantee at the end of a specified investment period under an equity-based product and to analyze the sensitivity of the net risk premium to changes in several underlying parameters. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.