Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are a summary of two workshops - Methods of Computing 'Net Cost' for Ordinary Life Insurance and Life and Health Insurance Plans for Groups with Generally Fewer than Twenty Five Lives. There is also a discussion of a proposed SOA constituional amendment related to public expressions of opinion.

Description: Discusses bond-default history in the United States, implications for insurance-company asset determination, regulatory concerns about recent investing by insurance companies in low-grade bonds, valuation-actuary needs to consider in these cases, and another suggested method for modeling the C-1 Risk in the context of the valuation actuary's cash flow review. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This is a panel discussion session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting on the relationship of product design and investment philosophy. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: Discusses the severe adverse effects on U.S. capital markets that will occur due to the passage of FAS 115, which requires marking certain assets to market without a corresponding adjustment to liabilities.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about defined benefit plan pension investments. Specifically it covers: 1. Dedicated portfolios, 2. Investment policy for defined benefit plans, 3. Real estate investments, 4. Immunization, and 5. Foreign investments.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1998 – volume 32 - Issue 5: Individual savings, or accumulation, products include single premium deferred annuities, single premium life insurance, separate accounts, and others. This article describes a conference on these types of products that was held in January 1999.

Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1998 – volume 32 - Issue 9: Planning is progressing for the SOA conference “Fair Value Accounting for Insurance Companies,” March 18-19, 1999, at New York University (NYU), and some exciting new wrinkles have recently arisen.

Description: Traditionally, life insurance companies have depended on individual whole life insurance policies for their growth in assets. This has changed in recent years. Now, annuities, particularly individual annuities, have become the largest part of new individual premiums. Companies have responded by issuing a plethora of imaginative products. These are often founded on a variety of recently developed financial instruments, such as derivatives. This article is about the Actuarial Foundation's study of the risks of these new annuity products and the new financial instruments underlying them. The study will culminate in a scientific conference in New York in December 1998.

Description: The panel discusses the cost feasibility of a large scale computer being shared by a group of smaller companies, applications found for medium sized computers and the extent companies are using deck size electronic computers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: I recently was privileged to represent the Society of Actuaries in Holland at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Dutch Actuarial Society. I’m not going to do a travelogue telling you how friendly the people are. Rather, I want to bring two important matters to your attention. First, the whole world is involved in the business we think of as particularly ours.