Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This is a panel discussion on managing the adequacy of capital by setting capital targets and ensuring targets are met. External capital, performance measurement, and management of inter-company relationships were part of the discussion.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. In this session the panelists shared their thoughts regarding the skills, techniques, opportunities, and distribution associated with products found around the globe.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about banks selling insurance around the world. Topics included: 1. Insurance sold through banks in the United States. 2. The bank assurance players in Australia and Southeast Asia, their business strategies, the market shares that they've obtained, the types of products they sell, and their distribution methods.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses the actuarial codes of professional conduct and standards of practice in the U.S., how the codes from other countries pertain to actuaries practicing there and code and cultural differences in other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: Panelists discuss actuarial opportunities in foreign environments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: At this session 4PD of the SOA Annual Meeting in New York the panel discusses issues stemming from an AAA study of valuation and insurance in 14 countries on 5 continents, and what the U.S. could learn from these findings. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about the actuary's developing role in regulating insurance worldwide.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the duties and responsibilities of appointed actuaries, including compliance with qualification standards and actuarial standards of practice. They discuss the United States, where new regulations were recently adopted by the National Association of insurance Commissioners [NAIC], developments in Canada, where new legislation is expected to pass, and also world practice, looking at Europe and the U.K. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This presentation is a section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The guest speaker discusses prospective returns on financial assets, noting that the past, particularly the 1980s, is in many respects irrelevant in making projections of future returns, noting the decade of the 1980s was a nonrecurring and unsustainable period. He provides his thoughts in terms of projected real economic growth, projected inflation, projected real interest rates, and using that data makes projections of returns from a variety of financial assets. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Discussion of the current business environment, the profile of the actuary who can meet these needs, directions corporations will take in the 21st century, economic and demographic trends that will affect the environment and markets over the next decade. The panelists discussed the need to be pro-active in shaping the environment.