Description: Session 4b discussant comments

Description: This article summarizes recent proposed changes to the Valuation Manual that might take effect for 2019 valuations for PBR business.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about need for internal management reporting on a GAAP-like basis in mutual companies, difficulties in adapting stock GAAP accounting to traditional, participating product lines, need for consistency with pricing/dividend practices, and alternative accounting models - a review of theoretical work and computer modelling of several accounting alternatives.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses investment strategy, new investment instruments, investment strategy for flexible cash value policies, investment strategy for traditional policies and an example of investment strategy for a SPDA. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: Experts in this area discuss the latest research, the impact on risk classification, the legislative and regulatory issues involved, and the latest efforts by the American Academy of Actuaries. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss the Joint CAS/SOA Statement of General Actuarial Principles Exposure draft. Topics included are: -actuarial modeling -statistical regularity -stochastic modeling -time preference -diversity of preferences -present value of modeling -modeling of actuarial risks -validity of actuarial models -combinations of cash flows Risk Management: -avoidance of risks -actuarial soundness -risk classification -induced experience -credibility -anti-selection -information asymmetry -selection experience. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: An article that defines the scope of the Society of Actuaries reorganized administrative practice areas: life insurance, health benefit systems, retirement systems, and financial and investment management and solicits input from membership about the allocation of responsibilities.

Description: In session 117 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the status of a study regarding the current valuation methodologies applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance, as well as the legal and regulatory mechanisms through which they are implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.