Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about sex discrimination, impairments, and social insurance issues.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Insurance and banking experts update financial services convergence issues since the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley 'GLB, a.k.a. Financial Services Modernization Act'. Company reaction to the passage of GLB, actuarial contributions to the process and future actuarial implications are addressed.

Description: From a panel discussion session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Overview of New York Regulation 163, including the limits on different types of derivative activities, the Derivative Use Plan required by New York, and the reporting and control requirements.

Description: This concurrent session took place at the 1975 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting in New York, held in April. The presenters addressed various aspects of agency compensation and consumerism including the objectives of a compensation system, the services performed by the agent, how consumers view agent compensation, how the commission structure affects an agent’s advice, the impact of inflation on agents’ earnings, possible improvements to agent compensation, and regulation of “fair value” of insurance.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Prior to 1999, Glass-Steagall legally separated banking, brokerage, and insurance activities. Enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act brings “down the walls,” separating these financial industries. This session talks about the financial services modernization law and the impact it will have.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session will provided an overview of the constraints and opportunities which result from the regulatory controls of the NAIC, SEC, IRS and other local taxing bodies.

Description: The panelists from this session at the June 2000 meeting of the Society of Actuaries in San Diego compare and contrast separate account products sold in the U.S. and Canada in both the qualified/registered retirement market and the nonqualified market.

Description: This open forum session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, discussed developments in life insurance products which are funded in a separate account of a life insurance company.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the following: what are they and how are guarantee funds operated, why and how did they develop historically, what are the more recent developments, what are the advantages and disadvantages of these funds, are changes needed to keep these funds viable.

Description: This meeting session occurred at the SOA's 1980 June Meeting. The topic was a Federal Trade Commission Report issued on insurance copmany practices with regards to life insurance. This report identified four areas of concern regarding consumer value and recommended changes.