Description: In session 83D of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the option of using mortality improvements in pricing of life insurance products as an Actuarial Standard of Practice ASOP. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Annuities are presenting ever-greater risks for the direct writers: • Variable annuities with guaranteed minimum and enhanced death benefits and income benefits • Fixed annuities with multi-year rate guarantees are capital intensive • In-force structured settlements have asset portfolios with declining investment yields • The impact to the payout annuity market from lengthening life expectancies From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 146 PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the latest developments in underwriting and their potential impact on mortality, and the most recent mortality statistics.

Description: In session 138 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the possibility of a single premium immediate annuity that offers liquidity options. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Annual Meeting discuss the results of two SOA research projects. One study looks at mortality rates as a function of lapse rates. The other study develops a model for relating mortality and lapse rates.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.

Description: Panelists from U.S. and Canada describe their GAAP experience and address the theoretical and practical issues faced by companies moving from a mutual company to a stock company environment. From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999

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

Description: This 1978 panel discussion was on new actuarial standards for in Canada. Topics covered included: 1. The flexibility afforded the Canadian Valuation Actuary under the new Insurance Acts. 2. A comparison to the current GAAP and statutory reporting requirements in the U.S. and to the reporting requirements in the United Kingdom.

Description: This session of the 1976 SOA Spring Meeting in Houston presented a panel discussion on issues related to Individual Retirement Accounts IRA in the U.S. and RRSPs in Canada. Topics included: 1. which products have proved successful, 2. regulation problems that have developed, 3. Taxation problems, 4. Rollover problems, 5. Problems with increases, 6. Competition from other financial institutions, 7. Applicability of new money rates, and 8. Long- term interest guarantees.