Description: The authors of the 2nd edition of the 'Actuarial Mathematics' textbook discuss the changes in the new edition. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session discusses income replacement, or disability, policies. Topics include how they work, design alternatives, marketing, underwriting, regulation, past experience and future trends. From the Record of the SOA, Vol. 8 No 3

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Potential liability, Design techniques for controlling liability, Effect of inflation, Effect of medicare change, Financial accounting requirements, Funding vehicles and methods.

Description: In-depth discussion about the experiences of companies with plans like level-premium term to 100, in both U.S. and Canada: pricing considerations and techniques, lapse experience, sensitivity testing, regulatory history and recent activity, and establishing an adequate reserve. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: This session discussion is about the effect of changes in medical practices and technology, effect of cost shifting, measurement and analysis and employers' perspective. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session discussion is about health insurance tax reserves: standard morbidity tables, impact of statutory requirements, effective issue date for choice of interest rate, deductibility of additional reserves, and the chance for one-year preliminary term on certain coverages. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This session addresses buying or selling a block of long-term disability or life waiver claims: assumptions used to value these blocks, how life waiver business differs from long-term disability business, and possible structures for a deal. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 65

Description: This session from the 1976 Winter SOA Meeting is a teaching session about the gain and loss analysis in pension actuarial and its essential part of the pension valuation process.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of the process for setting assumptions for cash flow testing of interest sensitive products for reserve valuation analysis under statutory accounting in the USA and Canadian GAAP.