Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session presents analysts' views on major insurance multinationals, discussing the way investment analysts look at large companies in determining their buy/sell recommendations.

Description: Panelists discuss the current and developing old-age crisis from a world perspective and a U.S. perspective, and also look at it from a futurism perspective. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA Maui II Spring Meeting discuss how well the U.S. and Candian social security systems have met the criteria for an equitable system. An Australian actuary discusses his paper 'The Development of Some Criteria for Equity and National Retirement Income Systems.'

Description: This panel discussion addresses Critical Illness product design, marketing, trends and lessons learned from other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 20

Description: This presentation from Session 34 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the changing risks faced by sponsors of defined benefit pension plans and how actuaries can help these plan sponsors adopt investment and funding strategies that will help manage these risks. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting takes a look at differences in management of the insurance business around the world. Focus is on the regulatory environment, distribution methods, the competitive environment, and general business conditions.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. In introducing the speaker, the session leader notes the global similarity of the actuarial profession’s interests and concerns in that “issues such as solvency, professional conduct, and standards of practice are being discussed everywhere.” The guest speaker, editor in chief of ‘The Economist,’ discusses the rapidly changing world in light of the recent collapse of communism and current geopolitical and economic trends. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting presents various aspects of foreign exchange risk in life insurance company operations, how to measure and adjust for FEX effects, modeling for FEX, effective duration, and accounting for foreign exchange. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This keynote address at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about how the changing international environment affects our economy.

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.