Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. This panel expanded on earlier research to examine the potential costs of long-term guarantees, transfer risk modeling techniques, and the formulation of practical strategies to manage investment accumulation products.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. In this discussion, panelists looked at the economic cost of guarantees in VA products and explored some of the methods, concentrating on hedging, that companies are using to manage their exposures.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers the collapse of the real estate market in the early 1990's and the problems it created in cash flow testing and valuation work. It also covers an integrated asset/liability model and the applications beyond cash flow testing including an example for an SPDA.

Description: This session 112 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting covers principles developed during the Unified Valuation System UVS project of the American Academy of Actuaries with support from the Society of Actuaries and the Financial Reporting Section of the SOA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting looks at issues associated with historically low interest rates from the perspectives of new product development, an investment professional and a corporate view. Included is a discussion of alternative investments ane their risk/return trade offs.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about modeling investments including the relationship to pricing, modeling techniques, scenario creation, and modeling of collaterized mortgage obligations [CMO].

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss variable annuity reserving issues with respect to statutory, GAAP and tax. Methodologies and the effect of a proposed Standard of Practice are discussed.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session covered the results of new experience studies for individual disability, group disability and group life, the implications of the results, and the future direction of the studies.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about Local Area Networks. Topics addressed: 1. Why are LANs growing in acceptance by organizations today? 2. What do they allow you to do, and how is the business case built to justify them? 3. Why are the human resources required to support LAN users always underestimated? 4. There are many successes in migrating from the mainframe to a personal computer PC/LAN what are the pitfalls to avoid?

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting discusses constructing and using a comprehensive, credible risk management system with a concentration on C-3 risk. It also covers an example of option adjusted spread analysis for a single premium deferred annuity SPDA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.