Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This open forum for small-company issues addressed cash flow testing, RBC, variable annuities, capital needs, distribution capacity, and tracking legislation.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session provided an overview of the insurance industry around the world. Topics included: 1. What does it take to become an actuary in foreign countries? 2. Professional Standards of Practice. 3. Disciplinary Standards. 4. Education programs supported by the SOA in developing countries.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

Description: Presenters examine some of the difficulties created by the absence of worldwide generally accepted accounting principles. Topics covered: 1. The need for worldwide Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, accounting, and reserving standards. 2. The work being done by the International Accounting Standards committee and the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

Description: In session 7I of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the growth of the cross-selling of financial products in the banking and insurance sectors. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the challenges and consideration of entering other countries for the marketing of insurance including cultural, regulatory, environmental, distribution, product, competitive, and administrative issues.

Description: This session 30 PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discusses how several organizations, with representation from a number of countries, are currently drafting new standards to create uniformity across nations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3.

Description: In this 1981 discussion session, actuaries from the United States, Canada and Britain talk about insurance regulation.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting presents an overview of the life insurance business in all parts of Europe, Latin America and the Far East. Differences in culture, economics, markets and regulation are highlighted.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting describes the expansion and consolidation of the U.S., Canadian and Mexican life insurance industries and the discusses the top players in the insurance industry in the world and their market share. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.