Description: Discusses bond-default history in the United States, implications for insurance-company asset determination, regulatory concerns about recent investing by insurance companies in low-grade bonds, valuation-actuary needs to consider in these cases, and another suggested method for modeling the C-1 Risk in the context of the valuation actuary's cash flow review. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This table of contents from the Record Vol. 17, No. 3A, is a partial listing of sessions form the Colorado Springs Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5, 1991. The rest of the sessions are in the Record Vol. 17, No. 3B.

Description: This document is a listing of workshops and other sessions from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, for which no written record was made, with the names of those who served as leaders. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This discussion looks at redirecting the traditional role of the actuary into new areas such as working with doctors to deal with medical management issues, dealing and negotiating with providers and how to help the company develop a provider payment strategy. Employers negotiating directly with providers is also discussed.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. How do we quantify our unique skills and articulate them to nontraditional industries to enhance their awareness of actuaries and the role they can play in these industries? The profession has struggled with developing a strategic marketing plan for expanding actuarial opportunities to nontraditional employers. Part of the struggle centers on clearly defining and articulating the “product” that actuaries have to market. This role play helps clarify this definition.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. A discussion of status and direction. This session is intended primarily for ASAs who are still taking exams and FSAs responsible for administering actuarial programs. The Flexible Education System Implementation Task Force discusses the ASA syllabus for 1987 and the proposed FSA syllabus for 1988.

Description: This panel focuses on professional development and continuing education requirements of actuaries after fellowship. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 3.

Description: Discusses cost-benefit decision-making for acquiring electronic data-processing equipment and installation issues, ability of small companies to compete in pension trust arena, effectiveness of various agency compensation programs in stimulating sales and improving persistency, success of sales to substandard risks and rating methods, and pricing, reinsurance and experience with individual hospital and medical policies.

Description: From the 1986 Transactions Vol. 38, this document is the minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Boston May 22-23, 1986.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides up-to-date information on the redesign effort and the governing principles that guide the design process.