Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues surrounding the growing trend among insurance companies to hire outside money managers including rationale, selection criteria, performance measures and managing the outside manager.

Description: This session discussion is about deterioration in claims-paying ability, financial well-being of life insurance companies, benchmark surplus standards, key operation ratios, credit analysis of asset holdings, market view of stock companies, adequacy of capital in the industry, appropriate risk/reward posture in the industry, advice to management, outlook for the various business and views on surplus relief devices. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses employee benefit aspects of mergers/acquisitions/spin-offs, looking at pension benefit liability, other employee benefit liability, other executive compensation plan liability and Multi-employer pension plan amendment requirements. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the various factors to be considered in determining the interest margins for interest-sensitive life insurance, annuities and GICs, i.e. the difference in earned and credited rates including practical considerations. Valuing embedded options in assets and liabilities is also discussed.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting reviews Acquisitions and Mergers. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 1.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session focused on the possible impacts of a return to higher interest rates and explored risk management strategies that may be appropriate.

Description: At this session of the SOA 2004 Annual Meeting, the authors of a text on mergers and acquisitions each discuss their contribution to the book, which covers all aspects of an acquisition.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the panelists debated the diversity of professional practice about how companies and regulators can and should measure profit and set standards for profit margins. One panelist spoke of the traditional actuarial perspective, while the other represented the modern theory of finance.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Discusses 'state of the art' of international mergers and acquisitions in Asia, Latin America and other fast-growing regions.

Description: In session 74 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists examine the necessary steps to ensure that both customers and boards are comfortable with the investment activities of mutual fund managers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.