Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about rehabilitation fallout and the associated accounting and tax issues.

Description: The purpose of this report is to start an informed debate on the issues surrounding the treatment of diversification in the solvency assessment of insurers. The members of the Chief Risk Officer Forum herein suggest a framework for how diversification should be treated within a prudential regulatory framework.

Description: The US and EU are each pursuing modernization of their regulatory frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of the emerging developments, the historical contexts or drivers of each, and potential implications for insurers. The paper discusses some of the global, wider financial services, and insurance specific activities underway that are influencing solvency developments for life insurers. It provides an overview of the differences in the current US and EU regimes and the regulatory changes underway. The paper then identifies key valuation implications, the impact on pricing and product design, and risk management implications.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting looks at the issue of federal versus state regulation of insurance. Activities of the ACLI to develop an optional federal charter for companies and activities of the NAIC to improve speed to market are discussed.

Description: The SOA is shining a spotlight on its research activities as it migrates into the areas of public policy and other relevant topics.

Description: Book review of The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 269 Setting National Priorities, the 1975 Budget. Federal spending now accounts for at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. It is the single most important expression of America's priorities. The material in the book is a fertile source of material for the needed debate.

Description: ACLI's comments to Treasury and IRS on industry-related guidance.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses recent regulatory and economic developments in Mexico, including but not limited to the devaluation of the peso, an update on NAFTA, the changing market conditions, and an update in privatization of the social security scheme.

Description: This discussion of the Federal Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act reviews problems insurance companies and consulting actuaries are facing. Special procedures adopted are examined as well as the position taken with respect to the major questions arising from this law. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: In this panel discussion from a 1963 SOA meeting, operations under the Keogh Act were explored. The act provides a method under which funds deposited in qualified retirement plans can grow and appreciate income-tax free and under which taxable income can be deferred. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15 Pt. 2.