Description: Panelists identify the unique challenges and risks associated with asset/liability management for long-term care insurance and explore possible solutions to the challenges identified. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3, Session 28pd.

Description: Panelists discuss the impacts of adopting the 2001 CSO mortality table, including effects on reserves, cash values, premiums, maximum cost of insurance rates, and corporate and policy taxation. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 8PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Panelists: [1] provide an overview of embedded value [EV] and appropriate assumptions, and a comparison with fair value [FV], [2] discuss the various stages of management usage of EV, and [3] review a company's recent actual use of EV across products and for the purpose of determining optimal product mix. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 91PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Discusses the types of risks that are considered derivatives, the pricing of a derivative, how to manage derivative risks once they are on your books, and some specific examples of how companies are managing them. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 93PD of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session covers Pension actuaries who are becoming more involved in the administration of defined-benefit pension plans. Along with this work comes special challenges that are different from those seen in more traditional pension actuarial work. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 93PD

Description: This session discusses current trends in retirement decision making, retirement incentives, the impact of conditions in the local and national economy on a person's decision to retire. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session

Description: This session explores where financial engineering is applied, who is “leading the charge,” and what are the current and future roles of actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 55PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1991 Toronto Spring Meeting give an overview of Regulation XXX including its effect on product design, proposed actuarial guidelines, 2001 CSO, X-factor analysis and reinsurance issues.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting discusses variable annuities with guaranteed living benefits including an overview of the market and risk management practices from the viewpoints of a reinsurer, including hedging options, and a rating agency.

Description: This session discusses affordable health care including cost drivers, trends, the uninsured, federal funding and state initiatives. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 109