Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about a comparison and adaptation of the principles followed by companies praised in current management literature.

Description: This is a panel discussion of underwriting, pricing and societal considerations in insuring risks such as financial guarantees, product and professional liability, workers' compensation benefits, unemployment benefits, and others in a changing social and economic environment.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting provides information on the effort and the governing principles in redesigning the Education and Examination, E&E, process of the Society of Actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This table illustrates the pattern of life insurance company deals over the 1999–2003 time period. It can be found in the News & Publications Section of The Actuary under the article Kinder, Gentlet M&A by Robert Shapiro.

Description: Introduces the newsletter content on the SOA's redesign of the education and examination system.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. The presenters discuss various measures of financial results, including net income and surplus, and explore treatment of federal income tax, investment income, expenses, and generally accepted accounting principles, ‘GAAP.’ Planning, projecting, monitoring, and effective use of financial measurements are discussed.

Description: Author's prescient view into the perspectives our corporate leaders will need to adopt in designing financial measures for companies.

Description: Discusses the industry's need for a vision, due to dramatic changes in the business world and summarizes articles in this newsletter which explore the reinvention of insurance distribution.

Description: Discusses how surplus should be defined, how it should be invested, and how the rating agencies may respond to various approaches. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: An article on kinder, gentler mergers and acquisitions. Life insurance company mergers and acquisitions are seeing a renewal of activity. Now, however, they are being handled with a new consciousness.