Description: This session discussion is about methods of deriving cost of capital for enterprise, application to mutuals and empirical values of capital cost for stocks and mutuals in recent years. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 Spring Meeting is a panel discussion presented by the SOA's Futurism Section. The theme of the meeting is Competitive Strategies and in particular forecasting and the use of strategic planning for resource allocation.

Description: At this session 164S of the New York Annual Meeting presenters discuss SOA-sponsored research on private placement asset risk and returns, and specifically the results of the 1986-94 Experience Study. Also examined are current and changing trends in the private placement marketplace. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed recent developments in the equity-linked note market. Topics included: 1. New structures that allow active management. 2. Trade-offs affecting participation rates. 3. Accounting issues. 4. Tax issues. 5. Risk-based capital issues.

Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. This panel discussed asset class/equity sector historical returns demonstrating the need for diversification risk management at the portfolio level and models and assumptions available at investment firms for retirement and education planning.

Description: From session 5PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999. Panel discusses liquidity risk and the rating agencies' viewpoint on liquidity requirements.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers liquidity including the external view of liquidity, the internal view of liquidity and liquidity ratios and an actual liquidity stress situation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: A controversial alternative to ERISA/FASB actuarial cost methods and assumptions is presented as a challenge from the discipline of financial economics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 37PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting.

Description: Panelists provide a big picture overview of the M&A process and the roles of the actuary, investment banker, outside counsel, accountants, acquirer and seller. Includes a discussion on actuarial appraisals, ASOP 19 and due diligence. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 94

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses identifying appropriate types of businesses for acquisition, identifying target companies, the process from identification to purchase agreements, financing an acquisition and demutualization. Record of Society of Actuaries 1984 Vol. 10 No. 3 Negotiating strategy Life insurance companies as corporate investments. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3 in New York