Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses how much of the sex mortality differential is due to smoking habits, how convincing are existing studies, what do worldwide trends in mortality suggest about the effects of smoking and on mortality, how well do insurers classify the smoking risk, and the United States Life Tables for 1979-81 paper by Myers and Bayo.

Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: This session discusses current short-term disability benefits, recent market trends, pricing and risk management issues. Includes a discussion on voluntary benefits, self-funding and packaging with long-term disability. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 93

Description: This 1978 session discussed Individual Life Products in the Employee Market including: 1. The current status of the Section 79 market 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept 3. Trends in deferred compensation products 4. Recent activity in key person and split dollar markets.

Description: In this session from the 2005 SOA New Orleans Meeting, panelists discuss the ever-growing range of credit-derivative instruments that are becoming available including credit default swaps - CDSs, replicated synthetic asset transaction - RSAT and synthetic collateral debt obligations - CDOs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 31, No. 1.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session provided an overview of current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. Topics included: 1. Actuarial opinion and memorandum regulation amendments. 2. Progress on variable products reserving standards. 3. Regulation XXX mortality factors. 4. Adoption of the 2001 CSO. 5. Progress on the C-3 Phase II RBC project. 6. An update on annuity and life nonforfeiture.

Description: The session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting focuses on advanced cash-flow techniques, different approaches to incorporate interest sensitivity into pricing and product pricing including option-pricing approaches to asset/liability risk pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting looks at the considerations in designing field compensation plans including New York vs. non-New York issues and levelized commissions.

Description: Discussion on problems encountered in filling out the Schedule B and how to solve them. The session will cover reconciliation account, current liability calculations and suggestions for improvement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries 1992, Vol.18, No. 1A.

Description: From session 76 CS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999. Presenters demonstrate the potential risks of relying blindly on our models without sensitivity testing.