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: 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: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about Local Area Networks. Topics addressed: 1. Why are LANs growing in acceptance by organizations today? 2. What do they allow you to do, and how is the business case built to justify them? 3. Why are the human resources required to support LAN users always underestimated? 4. There are many successes in migrating from the mainframe to a personal computer PC/LAN what are the pitfalls to avoid?

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the efforts in the SOA basic education system to redesign the examination process and the status of the redesign. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session provided information on executive compensation plans in the US, with special emphasis on nonqualified deferred compensation programs. Topics included: 1. The growing importance of nonqualified deferred-compensation plans and the description of those plans typically used to supplement retirement income. 2. Issues relating to severance plans. 3. Deferred compensation via stock and other equity-type compensation.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act - HR-10.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of cash flow testing to assess level of C-1,C-2, and C-3 risk. Also, update on regulatory and legislative issues in Canada pertaining to the Valuation Actuary, reserves, and risk based capital