Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion looks at recent developments and emerging issues with the NAIC.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Insurance and banking experts update financial services convergence issues since the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley 'GLB, a.k.a. Financial Services Modernization Act'. Company reaction to the passage of GLB, actuarial contributions to the process and future actuarial implications are addressed.

Description: This is a summary of the NAIC meeting held in September of 2008.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists, including regulators and a retired insurance company CEO, discuss the evolution and current status of industry regulation and offer perspectives as to how that process is and will be changing to address future industry dynamics. Topics include status of regulation in the United States, notable failures and successes, state regulation versus other alternatives, e.g., federal-state, and industry risk management, including prevention of business failures, and state guarantee fund. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: A report on an international actuarial workshop Held in China

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1980 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 29-30 in Minneapolis. The panelists discuss the nature of current criticisms of risk classification practices, implications of recent court decisions - Manhart and TIAA-CREF, and the potential adverse implications of eliminating some common classification variables. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 6, No. 2.

Description: Discussion on the future of permanent life insurance. The panel examines whether cash value life insurance will continue in light of uncertain economic future, double digit inflation, competitive term products, replacements, increasing policy loans, attractive alternative savings products and the consumerist/regulatory atmosphere. g. Consumerist and regulatory atmosphere? h. Possible changes in tax, nonforfeiture and valuation laws?

Description: This is a discussion of the current topics in Canadian insurance. Specifically, it discusses product development, financial considerations, management of existing business, and outlook for field force.

Description: Results of recent survey of Smaller Insurance Company Section about the Financial Services Modernization Act, FSMA.

Description: This article discusses that “the investment returns earned by life insurance companies over the past decade have permitted the sale of contracts guaranteeing relatively high rates of interest. The contracts have given rise to problems in the areas of the federal securities laws, of federal income taxes, and of state valuation requirements,” as insurers, starting in the 1960’s began issuing annuity contracts that provided for the allocation of contributions to separate accounts.