Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium reviews the appointed actuary concept, the actuarial opinion and asset adequacy analysis as they apply to health insurance and expresses the views of one regulator on the subject and one actuary in terms of the actuarial standards of practice.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses professionalism of the actuary.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses the differences in modeling separate account products vs. general account products.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session presents the approaches of a stock and a mutual company to surplus management, and the application of recent research in risk theory to surplus management.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This presentation will cover differences in Regulation XXX and Regulation 147, possible new XXX designs, and consumer reaction to NAIC's adoption of XXX.

Description: 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session panelists discussed how cash-flow testing models can be used to provide significant Asset/Liability Management information, making the transition from cash-flow testing to ALM, definitions of ALM, the key assumptions in ALM, and evaluating results.

Description: Panelists of this teaching session discuss: [1] policyholder and company behavior and its impact on model and assumptions, [2] model purpose and structure, data collection, and behavior models, and [3] the modeling process, including objectives, considerations, constraints, and validation. Session 10 of the 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This session at the 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the history and current isses with Risk Based Capital as it applies to health insurance.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues related to variable and fixed deferred annuity modeling.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium examines Purchase GAAP accounting for life insurance acquisitions and identifies the major steps for implementing GAAP for acquisitions.