Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about implementing new technology, choosing between competing technology, problems to watch out for, unexpected benefits, migrating from mainframe to client/server, automating the field force and large-scale networks.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session will examine how insurers monitor product pricing issues through traditional financial reporting information and will also present other management information systems developed to more effectively monitor profitability.

Description: This paper examines the details of group major-medical expense insurance, a disability coverage, also labeled as catastrophe coverage. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: The session is about maximizing cost efficiency of mainframe computers used at life insurance companies. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about privitalization of social security programs. Topics included: 1. The Chilean model. 2. Trends in other Latin American countries. 3. Trends in Europe and Eastern Europe.

Description: This 1982 discussion session addresses three questions: 1. How will continued high rates of inflation affect the financial needs of retired persons, both absolutely and in comparison with other segments of the population?, 2. What effects will there be on the age of retirement and the need for retirement income?, and 3. To what extent will these needs be met from social programs, private plans or individual savings?

Description: Issue 57 | CompAct

Description: Actuaries play pivotal roles in insurance companies, consulting firms and throughout the industry. With the ongoing accounting and regulatory changes, process and system modernization and the rapidly changing environment, actuaries frequently find themselves working in multidisciplinary projects with non-actuarial teams. In order to take on broader leadership roles, actuaries are often times expected to partner with and/or lead non-actuarial personnel. How can actuaries work most effectively with non-actuaries? A panel of industry leaders across different disciplines will share their perspectives on actuaries working with and building effective relationships with non-actuarial colleagues. The presenters will cover how actuaries add value in a non-actuarial world, what aspects actuaries can focus on to be more effective across disciplines and incorporate success stories as well as lessons learned. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Identify skills critical to working across disciplines with non-actuaries - Recognize characteristics that actuaries possess that enable them to build effective relationships, as well as the characteristics that detract from the ability to successfully partner with non-actuaries - Consider how existing skills can be further leveraged and new skills can be developed to enable productively and efficiencies across actuaries and non-actuaries

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Jim Toole from International Section News, June 2001, Issue No. 25.

Description: The author discusses and provides an example of how some companies’ enterprise risk management (ERM) programs are designed and implemented in ways that can unwittingly weaken the organization.