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: 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 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: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about aspects of surplus management including objectives of a structured capital management program, surplus management for a stock versus mutual company, and sources and costs of raising capital.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session reviewed actuarial algorithms and programming techniques that have proved useful in many applications over the years, including approximations, interpolations, valuation methods, etc.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting focuses on FAS 133, which defines accounting for derivatives, embedded options and hedging activities. Details of FAS 133 and implementation issues are discussed.

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: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. The panelists discussed approaches for measuring risk across risk elements on a consistent basis and discuss the methods for aggregating results and measuring diversification.

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

Description: The panel discussed the accounting profession's attempts to codify an area that has long been subject to a wide variety of practice. Topics covered: 1. Accounting under the various methods of acquisitions: pooling of interests, purchase of stock, assumption reinsurance, indemnity reinsurance. 2. Benefit reserve approaches under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 60 within the context of defined-valuation premium approach versus defined-initial reserve approach. 3. Approaches to determination of discount rate for the present value of future profits and purchase date 4. Effect of differing levels of goodwill on earnings accretion versus dilution.