Description: Discussion of leading edge companies. Topics included: 1. How they got there 2. Lessons to be learned 3. Financial reporting issues faced by actuaries and others involved with companies that have failed or are close to statutory insolvency 4. Turning it around- strategies for future success.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Examination of real life case studies of recent insurance company insolvencies to test whether the concept of the Valuation Actuary would have prevented insolvencies or reduced the losses resulting from insolvencies.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session looks at the impact of regulation on the management of insurance operations in Asia, with a particular focus on Japan, which this year 1996 introduced its first major insurance law revision in 50 years.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about the impact of RBC on product design. Topics included: 1. An overview of the regulatory aspects of RBC. 2. How to incorporate RBC into the pricing of insurance products. 3. The small company perspective 4. The application of marginal RBC analysis. 5. A preliminary analysis on RBC covariance between product lines.

Description: This session discussion is about pricing on a unisex basis, regulatory developments, protecting against adverse selection, pricing considerations and experience analysis. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This open forum session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, discussed developments in life insurance products which are funded in a separate account of a life insurance company.

Description: The panelists from this session at the June 2000 meeting of the Society of Actuaries in San Diego compare and contrast separate account products sold in the U.S. and Canada in both the qualified/registered retirement market and the nonqualified market.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists, a regulatory examiner, an independent accountant, and an industry representative examine and discuss the objectives and quality of today's financial examination process. They discuss objectives of each type of examination, guiding principles and procedures, how successful examinations are in protecting the public's interests, and whether the process needs fixing, and if so, how and what actuaries should do. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1976 SOA Fall Meeting discusses the NAIC Model Life Insurance Soliciting Regulation, the impact on the sales presentation process and the recent upsurge of interest in simplified language for life insurance policies.

Description: This Open Forum took place as Session 7B at the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discuss the conflicting demands between the actuarial profession and company management which face the Valuation Actuary in Canada. Topics of discussion include demands on the actuary from the profession, those in place and those being proposed, and demands from management being placed on the actuary, and how the profession and Canadian Institute of Actuaries may be of assistance.