Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session discussed variable annuities and how direct companies use reinsurance to mitigate death and investment risk. Variable annuities and the enhanced death benefit were addressed from the direct and reinsurance sides.

Description: This discussion is on the availability of utilization and cost experience data for group medical care insurance coverages. Specifically, it highlights the role of the Society of Actuaries in intercompany data collection, employer demands for sophisticated utilization data for comparison by industry and geographic location, sources of industry-wide data, data resource potential of health claims processing by the National Electronic Information Corporation, and antitrust implications. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This session takes a fresh look at the issues related to acute care focus and the challenges of providing coordinated care for chronic conditions in the United States. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 80

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the speaker provided an overview of derivatives including: 1. Definition. 2. Uses. 3. Types of risks - market, credit, legal, and systems. 4. Risk management. 5. US regulatory guidelines and developments.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Chicago. This session covered cash-balance plans and age-weighted profit-sharing plans, which were the hottest products in 1992 in the pension arena. Areas covered included their primary attractions, legal concerns, and funding issues.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed the proposed standards for determining the economic assumptions for the purposes of measuring pension obligations. The actuary's determination of the interest rate assumption was the primary focus of the discussion.

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.

Description: This 1978 teaching session provided a basic primer on the design of the OASDI benefit formula. Areas covered included: 1. The Decoupling issue 2. The Average Indexed Monthly Earnings 3. The Primary Insurance Amount formula 4. The Indexing procedure 5. Transition arrangements 6. The Short Service problem 7. Replacement Ratio considerations 8. Impact of Wage Base changes 9. The Retirement Age and Retirement Test.

Description: Annuities are presenting ever-greater risks for the direct writers: • Variable annuities with guaranteed minimum and enhanced death benefits and income benefits • Fixed annuities with multi-year rate guarantees are capital intensive • In-force structured settlements have asset portfolios with declining investment yields • The impact to the payout annuity market from lengthening life expectancies From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 146 PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting

Description: Panelists discuss key public policy issues relating to access, coverage, and financing of health care, as well as current health care reform proposals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 47