Description: This session discussion was about the North America Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States: Expectations, status, opportunities and implications with respect to professional mobility, financial institution reform, social security systems, and employee benefit plans.

Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists address a range of issues related to product development in life insurance companies.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a look ahead as of 1982 at opportunities for actuaries in the 1980's and 1990's. Questions addressed by the panel included: i. Will traditional opportunities be reduced? 2. What non-traditional opportunities are available? 3. What changes are needed in our educational process? 4. How do we make non-traditional employers aware of actuarial skills and their value? 5. What will actuarial work be like? 6. Some perspectives on the situation in Canada as it moves toward more government ownership and control of financial security programs

Description: This 1981 session focused on insurance regulation from a federal vs. state perspective. Topics included: 1. Current regulatory environment 2. Anticipated changes in the regulatory environment 3. Ways the future regulatory environment might be impacted.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This is a discussion led by Dr. M. James Bensen, President of Bemidji State University. Dr. Bensen speaks about speed, change, the actuarial profession and the society within which actuaries work.

Description: Presenters discuss the basic elements of strategic, or long-range planning and review the general state of the pension industry. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2, session 97CS of the Maui II Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation, session number 44PD at the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX, asks the questions: “Between leadership changes, market shifts and restructuring, what does it take to really succeed in today's environment? Will your company be in the same business tomorrow? Are you positioned for success regardless of inevitable changes, or are you barely surviving today?” The panelists go on to explore the importance of a company having a “winning culture.” Includes comments from participants. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: Presentation on change and what it is about, changes in our culture and how to understand them, and the future of the actuary.

Description: Summary of the Key Note address at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries by Dr. George H. Labovitz. Dr. Labovitz's topic was Participatory Management: a management style that involves personnel at all levels to influence direction and decisions.