Description: Panelists discuss various features included in today's executive compensation plans, such as Rabbi trusts and supplemental executive retirement plans [SERPs]. Tax considerations also are discussed. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session discussion is about annuities, surrender charges, expense management, asset management and market value adjustments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session 112 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting covers principles developed during the Unified Valuation System UVS project of the American Academy of Actuaries with support from the Society of Actuaries and the Financial Reporting Section of the SOA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting looks at issues associated with historically low interest rates from the perspectives of new product development, an investment professional and a corporate view. Included is a discussion of alternative investments ane their risk/return trade offs.

Description: From session 23PD at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000. Panelists discuss various techniques employed by insurers for managing the risks inherent in their variable annuity portfolios.

Description: In session 117 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the status of a study regarding the current valuation methodologies applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance, as well as the legal and regulatory mechanisms through which they are implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about practice notes. The panelists debated the value of them and then discussed being aware of our legal liability.

Description: Presentation at May 1996 Spring Meeting Discusses evaluating yield needs and whether the expected net return will outweigh the RBC/rating agency penalty of added surplus requirement, the effect of factoring in volatility, the utility of using assets with high RBC requirements, and the amount limits on various assets.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session explores both conceptual and practical considerations involved with the formulation and implementation of investment strategy: decision-making framework and processes, measurement of risk and reward, constraints, modeling.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui II Spring Meeting discuss trends in the administration and design of employee benefit , specifically, hybrid plans and the outsourcing of administration.