Description: This session will be devoted to providing brief updates on the status and future impacts of new and emerging issues in financial reporting. The Canadian update will include the potential implications for U.S. reporting.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA Maui II Spring Meeting discuss how well the U.S. and Candian social security systems have met the criteria for an equitable system. An Australian actuary discusses his paper 'The Development of Some Criteria for Equity and National Retirement Income Systems.'

Description: Presenters examine the current draft of the SOA Retirement Plans Experience Committee's work on a new mortality table and study based only on uninsured pension plan experience. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at the outlook over the next 10 years of employee benefits. The effect on the role of the actuary is discussed.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 The panel provides an update on the status of the Factors in the Risk Selection Techniques Study.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: In session 122 IF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the results of research that addresses the issue of whether Social Security is a regressive system with respect to both the Canadian and U.S. Social Security programs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provides a brief overview and status of a variety of recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners statutory financial reporting developments.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panelists provided a brief description of the guaranteed benefits offered on Variable Annuities in both the U.S. and Canada, followed by an in-depth comparison of current issues, including risk assessment, reserving, and cash-flow testing.

Description: This meeting session covered proposed amendments to valuation and nonforfeiture laws, which included a new mortality table and the dynamic interest rate concept, the NAIC's activities around profitability and early warning tests, A&H rate filing guidelines, and SEC activity around annuities..