Description: This 1979 session is about Life Company performance measures and pricing. Topics included: 1. What are appropriate performance criteria? a. In terms of financial results b. In terms of growth 2. How are goals established? a. For Mutual companies b. For Stock companies 3. What measurement tools do we use? a. Comparison of actual to expected results b. Compound growth rates c. Rules of thumb for various performance ratios d. Analysis of source of earnings 4. How are results used in pricing? a. Pricing consistent with goals are goals consistent with projections? b. Problems relating to allocation by line

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.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session on data and interoperability standards for actuaries, the panel discusses the importance of open data standards which enable communication and transmission of data between different systems developed by different vendors. They also discuss the attached white paper entitled 'Proposed Data Standards for Table Data in the Insurance and Pension Industries' which was written by the Computer Science Section of the SOA to encourage adoption of the described standard.