Description: Discussion papers on a paper dealing with minimum statutory nonforfeiture values for retirement annuity contracts.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides an update on current annuity financial reporting topics, including: status of annuity valuation law revisions and proposed Actuarial Guideline GGG.

Description: Panelists at this session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss recent compensation developments and trends in the financial services industry.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss how changes in interest rates affect the assets and liabilities of a life insurance company and what a company can do to prepare. This session examines historical trends in interest rates and how companies have reacted to both sudden and gradual changes.

Description: Excellent big picture view for planning a social insurance system with pay-as-you-go, required self-funded, and voluntary plans.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on effective product management of life insurance. Topics included: 1. Definition of effective product management 2. Internal organization required 3. Establishment of objectives for a product line 4. Coordination of company activities with respect to initial design 5. Monitoring

Description: This session discussion is about annuity product developments. The market value adjusted products, non-tax deferred products, non-surrenderable annuities, qualified market developments, effect of non-aggregation rule and variable annuity developments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: The insurance industry has a lot to learn from academia's missteps. With predictive analytics assuming an ever-expanding role in risk modeling, carriers would be well-served to establish practices that mitigate the creation of faulty models. Hear practical advice on how to mitigate the risks of overfitting, with a focus on how to translate complex policyholder behavior experience data for long-term products into behavioral models using company- and industry-level data.

Description: Impaired annuities - a niche product marketed to people at the “at-need” edge of long-term care and has the potential to instruct in bridging the gap for the products now being marketed to people “pre-need.” From Long-Term Care, Dec 2003, Issue No. 10

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on activities related to deferred annuities including methods of reflecting fluctuating interest rates in amounts credited to contract-holders, recent product design innovations, and reserves.