Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about asset segmentation, i.e. segmenting assets among lines of business or liabilities, practical issues involved in the process, and how this enhances asset/liability mangement.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting looks at how the insurance industry is consolidating and converging with other financial institutions from the viewpoint of Wall Street and banking. Also, panelists discuss how to analyze an insurance company and/or a product line within the company using public information.

Description: From a teaching session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Discussion of realistic liability models for use in asset adequacy analysis, asset/liability management, pricing/repricing, financial reporting, or other purposes.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting focuses on creating shareholder value from the standpoint of two rating agencies and a securities firm. Factors that influence shareholder value are discussed.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting discuss new profit measures that are used in the management of the company. The focus is on value-added and risk-adjusted return on capital [RAROC] methods.

Description: This article examines potential approaches to the calculation of the risk adjustment component, with a focus on a case study related to a UL product.

Description: This article gives details of the demutualization process of The Equitable Life Assurance Society, highlighting the decision process, actuarial issues and regulatory challenges.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses employee benefit aspects of mergers/acquisitions/spin-offs, looking at pension benefit liability, other employee benefit liability, other executive compensation plan liability and Multi-employer pension plan amendment requirements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Capital gains and losses accounting, Internal sales of investments among portfolios, Equity investment accounting, Internal stripping of securities, Internally manufactured puts and calls, Allocation of taxes and investment expenses among portfolios, Accounting systems needed.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel examined the determination and use of the cost of capital for both stock and mutual companies. Topics covered included: 1. How to measure the cost of capital. 2. Use of cost of capital in choosing among options or setting an enterprise's direction. 3. Should different costs of capital be used for different purposes? 4. Options for financing and the effect on cost. 5. Maximizing return by proper mix of options. 6. Example of an acquisition. 7. Appropriate amount of capital. 8. International perspective.