Description: This panel discussion session focuses on developments in health insurance minimum loss ratio regulation including the NAIC Minimum Loss Ratio guidelines, loss ratios as a regulatory tool, and state regulatory actions. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss managing RBC through product management and through asset allocation. RBC is discussed from the U.S. and Canadian perspectives. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: In session 85OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss reserving requirements, methods, and risks associated with offering Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits GMBD on variable annuities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session about annuities, topics discussed included product design, regulatory, marketplace, compensation, and pricing issues.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed credibility theory. Areas addressed included defining credibility and the complexities of measuring it with an emphasis on group medical insurance.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about regulatory aspects , administrative aspects, financial reporting issues, Canadian products.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about the relationship between product design and investment policy. The focus is on a review of investment metircs, discussion of option adjusted spreads, and the use of total return from equity investments to support insurance products.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about the various FASB statements with which the retirement benefit actuary must deal. Emphasis was on current developments. Topics included: 1. What the FASB is all about and what its objectives have been in issuing accounting standards that deal with various employee benefit plans. 2. The practical realities of dealing with clients and some of the problems that exist in dealing with these FASB statements. 3. The utilization and implementation of these FASB statements.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers a general overview of basic interest rate models, the meaning of an arbitrage free model, the considerations in choosing an appropriate interest rate scenario generator, the uses, alternative approaches, the double mean reverting process model - DMRP, and how good the results are in terms of historical rates. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session provided an update of current topics relating to individual life insurance. Subjects included: 1. Whole life products with a focus on par products from the marketplace point of view. 2. Financial factors impacting whole life products. 3. Guideline XXX and its impact on level term products. 4. Variable life insurance.