Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of the future role of the valuation actuary

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues unique to mutual life insurance companies including the definition of a true participating policy, cash flow testing for participating policies, dividends, asset allocation taxation, sources of free surplus for mutual companies and demutualization.

Description: An actuary talks about his career, his firm's ventures into partnerships between actuaries and health care professionals, and his role in the role in the largest actuarial malpractice settlement in history.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers recent legislative and regulatory developments in the U.S. and Canada including the ownership of the surplus in a pension plan, the CIA discipline process, the Department of Labor's DOL's 'safest available annuity provider' rule and tax issues on deferred compensation plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about the actuary's developing role in regulating insurance worldwide.

Description: This Open Forum took place as Session 7B at the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discuss the conflicting demands between the actuarial profession and company management which face the Valuation Actuary in Canada. Topics of discussion include demands on the actuary from the profession, those in place and those being proposed, and demands from management being placed on the actuary, and how the profession and Canadian Institute of Actuaries may be of assistance.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium presents a question and answer format relating to various valuation topics.

Description: This 1981 session reviewed the relationship of group and individual insurance. Topics include differences in underwriting, legal constraints, marketing and distribution, and the nature of guarantees provided

Description: From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002 Discussion of issues and the impact of current statutory valuation requirements for life insurance policies. Requirements covered include the Actuarial Standard of Practice on XXX, Actuarial Guideline AXXX, and Actuarial Guidelines 36 and 37. Products and issues discussed include nonlevel premium or nonlevel benefit insurance e.g., selective term, universal life with secondary guarantees or shadow accounts, determination of X factors, interpretation issues regarding XXX, variable life, and variable universal life, equity-indexed universal life, and the new CSO mortality table.

Description: A broad discussion of Israel’s Life Insurance Industry