Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about cash flow testing as it relates to taxes including the regulatory background, current practices, and the effect of using tax versus statutory values in cash flow testing.

Description: At this session 114 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting, participants learn how to create efficient simulation models in Excel for various problems arising in finance and insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the purposes, tools and methods available, scenario testing, updating, special issues and problems. This discussion anticipates the development of new Valuation Actuary reserve adequacy opinion requirements.

Description: Slides from a panel discussion session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 Discussion of the basics of actuarial appraisals: Panelists discussed the reasons to perform an actuarial appraisal, the processes involved, issues that should be addressed and assumption development.

Description: This session covers stochastic modeling processes currently in use and explores others that may be beneficial to health actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 76

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. The investment environment has undergone significant change over the last several years through the introduction of many sophisticated investment vehicles. This session provides an update on current challenges encountered by life insurance companies in accounting for this new array of investments. Among the issues covered will be accounting for derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and other hedging vehicles. The session also includes some of the system and projection modeling challenges encountered as a by-product of investment in these vehicles.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel reviews asset valuation methods in use for retirement plans, pros and cons of each method, how to relate with actuarial assumption and solvency position, tracking with market value, and dealing with new asset categories.

Description: Slides from a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session discusses recent developments within the American Academy of Actuaries and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners with regard to reserving requirements for equity-indexed annuities and life insurance.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the techniques for understanding and analyzing trends in medical care, including: utilization and cost components, analysis of cyclical behavior, use of econometric models, and aggregate trend vs. employer-specific needs.

Description: In this discussion, the panel recalls all of the considerations in the design of the SOFASIM Society OF Actuaries SIMulator. It was obvious from the first model of the life insurance company SOFASIM, as it was named must have an actuarial side as well as an investment side. GAAP and tax aspects of the model are also discussed.