Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters examined alternative marketing methods that bridge buyers and sellers. Subjects discussed: 1. Work-site marketing. 2. Nontraditional marketing survey presentation. 3. Marketing through property and casualty agents.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 This session discusses continuing care retirement communities and other provider organizations, such as nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and residential facilities. This panel discusses trends in the retirement housing industry and practices and opportunities for more effective management of the cost of care.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session on international reinsurance covers the following topics: • Overview of the extent and form of international reinsurance activity. • Reporting, regulatory issues, remittance of payments, and currency exposure. • Accepting reinsurance of business issued in other countries from a US perspective. • Underwriting standards - US versus foreign countries. • Management of foreign risks from a US perspective.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session about fluctuation in interest rates covered: 1. The impact of increasing interest rates on liabilities. 2. Whether insurance companies are prepared for movements in interest rates. 3. The effects that rising interest rates have on the asset side of the balance sheet and some of the associated risks. 4. Investment strategy and asset-liability strategy, using the SPDA product as example.

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Discussion of how products and services are tailored for in-bank insurance sales. Particular emphasis is placed on the middle-income market. Particular issues include product design, underwriting, policy issue, sales support, and field and customer access to the home office for service.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. The panelists discussed methods of assessing catastrophic risk, offered insights into how reinsurers evaluate it, and discussed tools that assist in quantifying and evaluating the risk.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Pros and cons of demutualizing, legal and regulatory perspective, current demutualization developments, actuarial considerations of how much, in what proportions, and to whom, structuring the demutualization, and implications of a public offering.

Description: 2004 SOA Spring Meeting, Anaheim, CA. The panel discussed how to analyze LTC flows from an asset perspective, recognize embedded derivatives in LTC and determine strategies for hedging fair value. The goal was for the attendees to learn to view LTC from an investment rather than a liability perspective, recognize embedded risks in today's LTC marketplace, and deal with investment risks in LTC.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about identifying international opportunities, positioning yourself for those opportunities, determining skills needed, and comparing with skills you have.