Description: This discussion examines the changes made in underwriting limits and new business expenses, operational changes to improve the valuation process, the use of technology, and the effect of field sales offices also being a point of premium collection.

Description: This discussion covered: 1. The extent to which companies' net earned interest rates have risen above their low points from that of several years ago and 2. The NAICs' new method of dividing amortizable bonds into two classes in the valuation of securities

Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. The discussion topics include: comparison of the new Canadian and U.S. convention blank annual statements whether there are any differences significant enough to cause undesirable lack of uniformity difficulties encountered in compiling the Canadian statement by line of business and geographic subdivision and problems which may be anticipated in the preparation of annual statements by reason of Regulation No. 33 of the New York Insurance Department.

Description: This discussion is about group life insurance for employees on leave due to military service, methods for estimating group dividend liabilities, and issues in the underwriting of Group Hospital Expense insurance.

Description: This discussion looks at the preparation of the annual statement on a new form, the difficulties of meeting the requirement to report both incurred and cash entries, the problems which have arisen as result of the requirement that net capital gain or loss be split between realized and unrealized, and the effect the continued requirement of a Security Valuation Reserve prescribed by the NAIC will have on matters such as dividend apportionment and reserve strengthening.

Description: This is a panel discussion on the relationship between actuaries and certified public accountants. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville Regional Meeting is a discussion about federal income tax topics for smaller companies.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, A Practical Method of Forecasting a Life Insurance Company's Gross Operating Earnings for the Current Year by J. Barrett Walker. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 33, this ‘Digest of Informal Discussion’ took place at the 1960 Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Washington, D.C. March 24-25. The participants discussed the effects of federal income tax on the guarantees involved in annuity considerations, settlement options, pension funds, interest on funds left on deposit, and nonparticipating premiums.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.