Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting looks at the issue of federal versus state regulation of insurance. Activities of the ACLI to develop an optional federal charter for companies and activities of the NAIC to improve speed to market are discussed.

Description: This article discusses the Society of Actuaries Foundation's first consumer education program and how it is filling a gap by providing information on Social Security.

Description: Discussant comments for the 2009 Housing Wealth monograph paper, “Home Equity and At-Need Annuities—A Dynamic Long-Term Care Funding Duo”. The author finds that the ideas discussed in this paper should stimulate more thinking about financial products and public sector programs and how they can better serve older homeowners.

Description: Book review of The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 269 Setting National Priorities, the 1975 Budget. Federal spending now accounts for at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. It is the single most important expression of America's priorities. The material in the book is a fertile source of material for the needed debate.

Description: A discussion of the events of the NAIC Summer National Meeting in Seattle.

Description: Summary of the upcoming activities for the Smaller Insurance Company Section in 2016.

Description: Chapter 4 describes growth issues including multiple account problems of the old SAR, the amount of money in the AFOREs, and portfolio composition in the AFOREs. From Retrospective and Perspective Analysis of the Privatized Mandatory Pension System in Mexico, M-RS02-1.

Description: Article from The Actuary February 1993 Volume27, No. 2 highlights benefits to insurers from NAFTA

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the Society of Actuaries' review of its activities to determine if they comply with federal antitrust law. A specific item addressed was the recommendations on Theory of Dividends and Other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuties. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session provided information on executive compensation plans in the US, with special emphasis on nonqualified deferred compensation programs. Topics included: 1. Golden parachutes. 2. Limitations on deductibility of executive compensation. 3. Taxation for constructive receipt and the ERISA issues of these plans.