Description: Panelists discuss portfolio restructuring, use of reinsurance to restructure liabilities and in other ways, hedging strategies, and product-mix strategies. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This presentation from Session 56 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the risks faced by sponsors of defined benefit pension plans and how actuaries can help these plan sponsors adopt plan design strategies to manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] investment quality as a dynamic investment consideration, [2] the impact of securitization on investment quality, [3] measuring default risk, and [4] the interrelationship between C-1 risk and C-3 risk. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: This article is a transcript of a session at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles. It addresses the question of whether traditional valuation principles can provide the same assurance of company solvency as in the past. Discussions include: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP, impact of changing asset values on cash flow and surplus problems.

Description: At this presentation from Session 79PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting, the speakers explain the financial risks inherent in the Asian financial crisis and other, more recent crises. They discuss how such risks can affect other countries and regions. They touch on such topics as sovereign risk and currency mismatching. The speakers also comment on impacts on multinational financial services operations and suggest ways for the industry to prevent or better manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session deals with the use of reinsurance in the strategy of carriers' approaches to the long-term-care marketplace. Specifically, it discusses the market potential of LTC and the benefits of reinsurer expertise, smoothing of claims variability and protection from excess risk, the pros and cons of selling another carrier's plan, and types of reinsurance.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] relationships with your reinsurer, [2] reinsurance administration, [3] setting retentions, and [4] financial reinsurance and the regulator. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss annuity risk management and how this can be applied to new product development, as well as in-force product management. Also discussed are the proposed C-3 Phase II capital determinations for various guarantees with and without a hedging program.

Description: At this presentation from Session 7PD of the SOA 1996 Colorado Springs Meeting, the panelists comment on the value they place on ensuring proper management of risk, contract preparation, underwriting and claim handling for long-term care policies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.