Description: What would we do if we could start pension funding all over? Would we have minimums, maximums, solvency-based contributions, the PBGC? What does financial economics say about how plans ought to be financed? From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 2005 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses issues and concerns related to asset-liability ALM modeling. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1.

Description: In session 40PD of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium, panelists discuss theories and assumptions underlying scenario generators, evaluating appropriateness of generated scenarios, choosing suitable economic scenario generators and use of representative scenarios.

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: 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: This presentation is an open forum, session number 20OF, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. In this session, the panelists discuss how to successfully communicate, emphasizing the importance of understanding who your audience is. Discussion from participants, including case studies and role playing, is included.

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.

Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses unisex cost/non-smoker discounts, contingent benefits, indexed benefits, partial loss, guaranteed insurability, valuation standards and claim reserve estimation. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A