Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session discussed the proposed standards for determining the economic assumptions for the purposes of measuring pension obligations. The actuary's determination of the interest rate assumption was the primary focus of the discussion.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addressed the new risk-based capital requirement. Topics included: 1. How reasonable is the framework of basing the formulas on simplistic application of the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 risks? 2. Will this be effective in stanching the proliferation of RBC formulas by the regulatory bodies? 3. Which lines of business are treated relatively badly by the formulas? 4. Is there realistically anything that can be done to prevent company comparisons and renkings? 5. What are the administrative problems faced by the regulators in the oversight process requirement that this will create?

Description: This session is about individual medical and regulatory issues, loss-ratio requirements, form and rate approval, compliance and reporting issues. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: In session 22 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss a range of issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23. Vol 2.

Description: Panelists in this session 27TS of the Montreal Spring Meeting discuss the basic fundamentals of life reinsurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: In session 70PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss tax, statutory, and GAAP accounting issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: In session 136 PD of the Washington annual Meeting panelists discuss various methods for measuring investment performance and benchmarking investment performance against liabilities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This panel of session 3PD of the Washington Annual Meeting discusses a range of topics which fall under a new professional label of financial engineer, and how this role relates to the role of the actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss recent developments in the area of fair-value financial reporting for life insurers – specifically, the exposure draft of 'Using Cash-Flow Information,' the concept of entity-specific value, and the fair value of liabilities. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss managing RBC through product management and through asset allocation. RBC is discussed from the U.S. and Canadian perspectives. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.