Description: Survey of Asset Valuation Methods for Defined Benefit Pension Plans. From The Pension Forum, August 2001, Volume 13, Issue No. 1

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about international diversification by life insurance companies and the oppurtunities versus the risk from a strategic standpoint. Views are presented by companies in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1994 – Volume 28, No. 5 in which the author looks at the original estimates compared the actual estimates in regards to End Stage Renal Disease ESRD program.

Description: Pricing Small Group Medical Coverage Renewal Pricing regression to the mean, blending of experience and manual rates, small group reform laws. Issue No. 40.

Description: Chairman's corner for the September 2016 International News

Description: This paper deals with the selection of appropriate interest and inflation assumptions, which is one of the most important considerations in the valuation of a defined benefit pension plan. The paper begins by describing a simplified model in which the only important consideration is the selection of an appropriate differential between interest and inflation assumptions. The discussion then considers some situations that might lead the actuary to attempt to select a realistic level of interest and inflation assumptions, in addition to an appropriate differential. The author's conclusion is that in some situations the absolute level of the interest and inflation assumptions can be all but meaningless, and the differential between the two assumptions is the important factor. In other situations the use of this technique will produce serious inaccuracies in the valuation results. As always, the actuary must analyze each situation in order to determine which of the available techniques will produce the best results with the least effort, given the degree of accuracy required. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. Panelists discussed emerging issues from the perspective of smaller insurance companies. Topics addressed included an update on illustration actuary requirements and the implications of the NAIC codification project for smaller companies.

Description: A discussion of topics in a series of roundtable education sessions on life insurance products and companies at the collaborative meeting of the ACLI and member companies.

Description: This article looks at the public's difficulty in recognizing what they need to achieve financial security and how the insurance industry's products fulfill those needs.

Description: This article reviews underwriting and why it has remained unchanged for 50 years. The unhealthy lifestyles of Americans are examined. From Health Watch Newsletter, May 2006, Issue No. 52.