Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses how much of the sex mortality differential is due to smoking habits, how convincing are existing studies, what do worldwide trends in mortality suggest about the effects of smoking and on mortality, how well do insurers classify the smoking risk, and the United States Life Tables for 1979-81 paper by Myers and Bayo.

Description: This session takes a different approach than the similarly named session at the Spring 1988 Meeting. Here, panelists: [1] provide a 'Corporate Planning 101' background, [2] discuss planning surplus, and [3] discuss implementation challenges. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: This session explores the potential cash-flow and financial accounting implications of the equity market decline. The discussion focuses on ways to present these results to clients and asset/liability matching techniques that can be used to dampen the significance of this change. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 61pd.

Description: Panelists develop a framework for analyzing the diverse family of deferred recognition methods for assets under a pension plan. Using this framework, attendees learn how to assess the reasonableness of a method from both a client and a regulatory perspective – that qualify under IR Code Section 412[c][2][A] – including a case study of the evolution of smoothing methods used by a particular group of plan sponsors. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 76PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Noted author and speaker talks about risk and the nature of risk, drawing from his extensive knowledge and experience in economics and finance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 1GS of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: The session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting focuses on advanced cash-flow techniques, different approaches to incorporate interest sensitivity into pricing and product pricing including option-pricing approaches to asset/liability risk pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the current rules and guidelines applicable to pension-plan coverage and participation requirements under many circumstances, from highly compensated employees within a controlled group to minimum participation requirements by plan. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses constructing and using a comprehensive, credible risk management system with a concentration on C-3 risk. It also covers an example of option adjusted spread analysis for a single premium deferred annuity SPDA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Teaching session on various types of algorithms that can be used, their applications and their pros and cons.