Description: Table of contents from meeting of the Society of Actuaries in Anaheim on June 11-12, 1992.

Description: This article explores the impact of the tsunamis which hit the shorelines of nine countries in Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004.

Description: Many insurers preparing market consistent financial statements encounter the issue of developing volatility assumptions for equity options and guarantees that are longer than any observable market data. This presentation develops a generalization of the classical Black Scholes option pricing model that is consistent with the European CRO Forum's framework for valuing non-hedgeable risk. The presentation argues that, with reasonable parameter choices, the model fits observed volatility surfaces well enough that it can be used to estimate implied volatilities where no market data exists.

Description: Formal report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force to the Board of Directors at its June 2005 meeting. This document contains general objectives of the task force, membership and structure information, and the group's strategic plan for implementing an accreditation program for actuarial science academic programs.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses different profitability or performance measures for insurance company lines of business, measurement on a statutory or GAAP basis and determining statutory surplus. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. The authors' stated proposal is to keep formal compliance Key Performance Indicators to support Risk Management system implementation and to have a business plan based on risk assessment.

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: This paper includes three discussions. The first is about permanent type insurance used as a substitute for group term insurance. The second discussion is about long-term disability experience, offsets and underwriting. The third discussion is about medical care expense insurance including experience, trends, impact of Medicare and COB. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20 Pt. 2, No. 56

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 6: In addition to its print and disk version, the “1991-92 Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database” is now available free of charge on the SOA Web site (www.soa.org).

Description: This 1981 session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.