Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session the speaker described the attributes of a UL policy, how his company invested the cash that was built up, valuation of the product, modeling in general, the specific model structure for Universal Life, problems encountered in the modeling process, and some of the more interesting aspects of the results.

Description: Review of non public options to finance care including personal savings, revers mortgages, family care and private insurance.

Description: Update on the potential impact of national health law legislation, and discussion of the influence of inflation on both the relation between actual and expected claims, and the design of new benefits and administrative procedures. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: This 1978 session focused on individual life product development. Topics included: 1. Policy loan rate considerations 2. Federal Income Tax considerations 3. Inflation recognition 4. Determining interest rate for nonforfeiture values and reserves 5. Reserve valuation method impact 6. Innovation in asset share techniques 7. State approvals and disapprovals 8. Disclosure 9. New products - Term insurance plus deposit funds, Contingent Life, Joint Life, Pension Trust, etc.

Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the entitled paper.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed tax compliance, the tax consequences of life insurance contract failure, the correction of failed contracts, and a 1992 update on the proposed deferred acquisition cost tax regulations.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel explored ways in which disability insurance underwriting guidelines must be closely linked to product design and sales methods. Panelists discussed a number of specific issues, including emerging illnesses, the protective value of various testing procedures, the role of financial underwriting, and the links between product, price, and underwriting.

Description: 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session discussed the implementation of a solvency testing process, associated company considerations, and the ways in which the process might be viewed by other parties.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The first speaker discussed the complete solvency testing process and the route by which the valuation actuary arrives at conclusions and prepares a solvency report. The second speaker discussed certain general objectives and requirements of the valuation actuary's report and then indicated how a hypothetical company's sample report was drafted with these points in mind.