Description: This presentation, session number 85PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The panelists review existing and pending Actuarial Standards of Practice as they relate to life insurance financial reporting in the United States. Other topics include the nature of reliance on ASOPs by statutory authorities, and the composition and processes of the Actuarial Standards Board, the body that establishes the ASOPs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: An article describing a hypothetical workplace dilemma involving defined benefit pension plan funding.

Description: This article shows readers' responses to a case study presented in the April 2010 issue of Stepping Stone. The part time in house actuary for a defined benefits pension plan feels the plan is under funded and recommends corrective action. The needed corrections are not felt needed by senior management.

Description: Presented at 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Presents updates from the NAIC and its Life & Health Actuarial Task Force, and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Article Ninety Years Ago by Moorhead in The Actuary, March 1979, Volume 13, Number 3

Description: This panel discussion, presented at a 1976 SOA Meeting, covered issues related to professional conduct and independence of the actuary. From the 1976 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 2, No. 3.

Description: A look at business fraud as depicted by Dickens, from the novels Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit, and comments on its continuing relevance to business ethics today.

Description: How insurers can build trust with the customers, particularly in the context of micro-insurance.

Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.