Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses financial management in the year 2001, which displayed an economic environment unlike that of any year since the 1960s.

Description: Discusses 1. the impact of increased yields on new investments on premiums, dividends and policy values, 2. the criteria of equity which should be observed when different basic assumptions or underwriting standards are employed for different plans, 3. pricing of substandard policies, 4. handling situations where premium payments aggregate more than the face amount, and 5. recognizing mortality trends in pricing settlement options.

Description: This session is about meeting the needs for financial information in managing an insurance company. Topics include: 1. What are management's basic needs how are they met can financial systems continue to meet the challenge? 2. Are fundamental changes ahead for GAAP reporting? 3. Is it time for mutual companies to provide more meaningful financial information? 4. Can current regulatory reporting meet the needs of the 21st century? 5. Can separate statutory and GAAP systems continue to coexist? 6. Will the United States regulatory environment reduce our global competitiveness? 7. Variance analysis - Why your predictions were wrong - Which variances are acts of God? - Which variances should be blamed on somebody? - How to deal with interest rate fluctuations 8. Market valuation, why? - What questions are being addressed with market valuation

Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Presents questions to actuaries who are experts in the field of actuarial valuation of insurance company assets and liabilities.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion on developments related to employer's accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panel discussion covered: · The basic concepts underlying fuzzy logic · Current applications to risk classification and pricing · Possible future uses of fuzzy logic · The basic concepts underlying neural networks · Current applications of neural networks in life insurance · Possible future uses of neural networks

Description: This 1981 session focused on Reinsurance Trends. Questions included: i. Why the recent movement from YRT to Coinsurance? 2. Should a company use a bulk or self-administered system? 3. When is it advantageous to use Coinsurance or modified coinsurance on existing business for tax planning 4. Experimental Underwriting - what are the results? 5. Pricing assumptions - where have all the margins gone? 6. When can reinsurance pools be used effectively what are the pitfalls? 7. What's in the future? a. Use of telecommunications and computers to transfer the risks? b. Lower rates and less service? 8. How have changes in reinsurance pricing affected ceding company pricing?

Description: Discussion of the issues the PBGC was focusing on at the time including modeling issues, losses incurred and expected and changes in legislation desired by the PBGC to manage losses going forward.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. Discusses how decreases in mortality and improvements in selection of risk techniques are being offset by increased lapse rates and selection costs. The panel discussed current and anticipated responses.