Description: Edited Content: Discover more about key Economic Scenario Generation (ESG) topics that are relevant for actuarial applications. Expect a focus on risk-neutral / market-consistent ESGs, like setting long term assumptions and scenario reduction. Long tern assumptions will focus on a basic introduction to challenges in deriving long term assumptions and key concepts to better understand how those are set. Come explore a basic overview of scenario reduction techniques and challenges as well as common sense criteria to address the reasonableness of the reduction. Provided Content: The overall objective would be to introduce key ESG (Economic Scenario Generation) topics to actuaries, with two topics below that are relevant for actuarial applications. We intend to focus on risk-neutral / market-consistent ESGs. 1. Setting long term assumptions o A basic introduction to challenges in deriving long term assumptions and key concepts to better understand how those are set 2. Scenario reduction o A basic overview of scenario reduction techniques and challenges as well as common sense criteria to address the reasonableness of the reduction

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses regulatory aspects, coronary risk factor analysis, guaranteed issue replacement programs, the economic value of the attending physician's statement and chronological age versus biological age. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: Tells what occurred after the adverse private letter ruling PLR 200738016 up to the issuance of the revenue procedure, and offers some speculation about the future.

Description: The secretary of the SOA looks back over the last five years at changes in the life insurance business and the actuarial profession.

Description: This report covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary Insurance issues between 1963 and 1964 anniversaries. It reviews mortality experience from medical and nonmedical issues in the first fifteen policy years and the sixteenth and subsequent years. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1965.

Description: This session discussion is about the long-term care and living benefit riders, early sales results, benefit structure, development of claim costs and regulatory and tax considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: The article summarizes the provisions of H.R. 1 that impact the tax qualification of life insurance contracts and the tax reporting of life settlements

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: This 1960 Report covers the intercompany experience under standard ordinary insurance issues between 1958 and 1959 anniversaries. It includes medical and nonmedical issues during the first fifteen years and the sixteenth and subsequent years. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1960 Reports.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.