Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the use of cash-flow testing in product development. Topics addressed: 1. The problem of interest rate risk and its driving forces. 2. The assumptions needed for cash-flow testing. 3. The pros and cons of deterministic versus stochastic testing. 4. The economic quantities measured in cash-flow testing. 5. The the technique of market-value analysis. 6. Research done to apply modem finance theory to determine the net worth of the enterprise in a way that directly demonstrates the financial impact of embedded options in assets and liabilities. 7. The technique of market-value analysis which adopts the innovations of duration/convexity analysis and option-pricing theory and applies these concepts to insurance liabilities. 8. The application of modern finance theory to determine the net worth of the enterprise. 9. A description of different uses of the OAVDE tool.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the Norris case, the Fair Insurance Practices Act and HR100, known as the Non-Discrimination in Insurance Act and the implications of these current developments regarding risk classification in the insurance industry and pension plans. From Record of the Society Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This session 68 TS of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discusses profit measures such as profit margin, statutory return on investment ROI, and return on equity ROE have been used to make decisions concerning new products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 68TS.

Description: This discussion is about various methods for grading premiums and/or cash values by face amount size. Also a discussion of reasonable interest and mortality assumptions for computing retirement income policy maturity values and optional settlement rates guaranteed in new policies.

Description: This session from the 2003 Washington D.C. Spring Meeting discusses a variety of risks that need to be considered in pricing life and annuity products. This session also reviews the results of the Risk Management Task Force Survey including how companies were measuring profit, how they were reflecting risk in pricing, how results were analyzed and how specific risks were being modeled. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 7PD.