Description: This session discussion is about the impact of Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB exposure draft, current regulatory environment, tax implications, techniques for estimating potential liabilities, design techniques for controlling liability. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 12, No. 1.

Description: Medical/Technological Advances

Description: This article is about a 1997 conference titled, 'Integrated Approaches to Risk Measurement in the Financial Services Industry,' that brought together a diverse group of 84 professionals, including actuaries and others working in risk measurement and management. That conference, sponsored jointly by the SOA’s finance practice area and Investment Section, was important in helping the profession advance the work of risk measurement.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Gross Premiums for Individual and Family Major Medical Expense Insurance by Morton D. Miller. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: Design and future maintenance of an asset portfolio backing a new line of business is critical for proper asset and liability management for that business. Most portfolio optimization methods utilize linear or quadratic programming and require the user to specify the asset and liability attributes and cash flows into the program. The programmer must also supply an objective function to allow the program to find the optimal asset mix for the associated liabilities. Two problems with this approach are that the liability cash flows are fairly static and that one must frequently rebalance the portfolio. An alternative approach would be to develop a corporate model of both the assets and liabilities and incorporate various economic scenarios as input into the model. Asset strategies would be measured against a specific objective function that is calculated by the corporate model. Unfortunately, the majority of maximization algorithms available are very time consuming, and obtaining a reasonable portfolio mix becomes impractical. This paper overcomes this difficulty by using a very rapid optimization method from the chemical engineering profession called the Floppy Triangle. The paper includes an example of the use of this process to determine an optimal portfolio. It also discusses modifications of the algorithm that is required when the shorting of assets is not permitted.

Description: This discussion looks at Group Accident and Sickness Insurance and asks the following questions: What loss ratios are expected during 1960 and 1961 under newly determined premium rates for basic medical care, supplementary major medical and comprehensive major medical insurance coverages? What are the design trends under comprehensive major medical insurance coverages? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Cincinnati, OH on October 2-4, 1958.

Description: These are meeting minutes from the Annual Meeting held in White Sulphur Springs, WV on November 9-11, 1964. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, Pt. 1, No. 46.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Regional Meeting held in San Francisco, CA on April 14-15, 1966. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1966, Vol. 18, Pt. 1, No. 50 AB.

Description: These are the minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Seattle, WA on May 27-28, 1971. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1971, Vol.l 23, Pt. 1, No. 66 AB.