Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses recent developments - regulatory and professional: valuation/appointed actuary evolution and responsibilities, solvency testing and reserve margins, capital requirements.

Description: This panel discussion session reported on the status and content of the Actuarial Standards Board standard dealing with the selection of assumptions. The discussion covers what the effects would be on practitioners.

Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.

Description: In July 1987, the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Committee on Life Insurance Company Valuation Principles released an exposure draft in which a distinction was made between valuation principles and standards of practice. Rather than including specific standards of practice in the valuation principles themselves, the Committee developed valuation principles to encompass current and future standards of practice. Panelists discuss the work of the valuation actuary in the context of these developments. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discusses the effect on pension plans of mergers and divestitures and looks at the importance of due diligence as part of the process. The discussion also presents the reality of actuaries on trial for negligence.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed techniques for preparing for actuarial exams.

Description: Discusses status of compliance with NAIC Annual Statement Blank requirement, survey of regulatory responses to interrogations, comments of the American Academy of Actuaries Task Force on first year results, and use of non-guaranteed elements in sales presentations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: List of workshops and sessions presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting with no written record.

Description: Discusses the pricing issues that, if handled successfully, pave the way for a solid statement of actuarial opinion: coordinating pricing and valuation roles, communicating product specifications, setting mutually acceptable assumptions, reflecting risk in pricing and valuation, coordinating investment policy and interest-crediting policy, and anticipating a volatile economic environment. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Overview of the valuation actuary's role, Product development implications, Actuarial profession implications, Implications for regulators, Implications for insurance company management.