Description: This document summarizes a meeting of the Reinsurance Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting consisted of a discussion related to the role and purpose of the section, a discussion of problems and pitfalls related to reinsurance treaties, and discussions related to choosing a reinsurer.

Description: This presentation was session number 31PD at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. As opposed to reserves, benchmark surplus, and its supporting assets, relatively little attention is paid to free surplus and its supporting assets. The panelists approach these assets “as a portfolio to be managed with its own set of performance goals, risk tolerances, and characteristics, including issues and alternatives for managing unallocated free surplus.” Topics include diversification, setting asset and liability risk tolerances and adjusting risk in the portfolio, performance goals for the portfolio, impact of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, and the use of internal capital formulas to drive growth. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the duties and responsibilities of appointed actuaries, including compliance with qualification standards and actuarial standards of practice. They discuss the United States, where new regulations were recently adopted by the National Association of insurance Commissioners [NAIC], developments in Canada, where new legislation is expected to pass, and also world practice, looking at Europe and the U.K. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. In this session, the presenters discuss investment objectives, strategies and plans. The actuary’s role in investment planning is addressed, including how asset management relates to pricing and reserves, asset liability matching, liquidity, and management of risk exposure.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The five speakers discuss product development trends for five different types of individual life insurance products: universal life, traditional life, term insurance, variable life, and multiple life plans. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This 1981 session focused on issues related to term life insurance. Topics included 1. Term life insurance products in the 1980's 2. Assumptions and experience 3. Term insurance marketing and distribution including sales compensation approaches.

Description: This 1981 session focused on health insurance coverages. Questions included: 1. What are problem areas that have given rise to recent legislative and regulatory activity? 2. What new or different sales practices are being utilized to alleviated consumerist and regulator concerns? 3. How have legislative restrictions on product design and sales practices affected pricing adequacy, morbidity experience and the long-range availability of such coverages? 4. What can actuaries do to educate the public and regulators about cost projections and premium adequacy? 5. Is it ethical to market a product with a low benefit payoff, high expense ratio? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss the financial management of insurance company liabilities, including the criteria for identifying significant product portfolios, lessons learned from historical results, and the challenges facing the financial managers in the future. They discuss the state of management information for appropriate product or market segments and how to improve it, and action plans for financial managers to improve financial results. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the small and mini-group market including trends in plan design, underwriting strategies, approaches to marketing compensation and claim cost containment strategies. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: This session discusses what is happening outside of CDHP with respect to plan & benefit trends/designs, underwriting & operational issues, and executive management report packages [dashboard reports]. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1, Session 77