Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 The panelists discuss the benefits of hedging variable annuity guarantees, the challenges they face and how they keep score.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about annual reports and financial statements. In particular, how to study and analyze a financial statement, how they are prepared, how to use them, and how to analyze what is going on with the company.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about asset segmentation, i.e. segmenting assets among lines of business or liabilities, and how this enhances asset/liability mangement.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about value-added accounting in an international context and how it is applied and used by multi-national companies in various parts of the world.

Description: From the Record 1991 Vol. 17, No. 1, this is the keynote presentation from the Society of Actuaries 1991 Regional Meeting, held in New Orleans April 18-19. The speakers discuss the increasing importance of the asset side of the balance sheet in looking at the reserves and overall solvency of a life insurance company, and the outlook for an increase in responsibilities and liabilities for the actuary in the 90s.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about SFAS 97 which is fundamentally focused on the gross profit stream of products like universal life and deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Assumption setting with view to tracking and verification. 2. Level of detail and differentiation between products and cells. 3. Timing issues - model versus financial reporting. 4. Unlocking.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session provided an update on the appointed actuary. Topics included: 1. Provided preliminary results of a 1992 cash-flow-testing survey that was sent to a number of life companies in the U.S. 2. A discussion of the position taken by one actuary who did not do cash-flow testing in forming an opinion for his company's 1992 annual statement. 3. How to deal with failed scenarios. 4. The evolution of the appointed actuary's role at MetLife. 5. How the process currently works at MetLife. 6. Insights on where MetLife sees the process going.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about the impact of RBC on product design. Topics included: 1. An overview of the regulatory aspects of RBC. 2. How to incorporate RBC into the pricing of insurance products. 3. The small company perspective 4. The application of marginal RBC analysis. 5. A preliminary analysis on RBC covariance between product lines.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses GAAP Accounting Alternatives For New Products including SPDA's, Universal Life, fixed premium variable life, review of the Audit Guide and the recoginition of premium revenue and variable universal life. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B