Description: Implications of the Final Health Privacy Rule HIPAA with regards to underwriting, renewing, rating, reserving, reinsurance and acquisitions. Issue No. 40.

Description: In 2003, the Society of Actuaries' Board of Governors approved a redesign of the education and examination system. Since that time, considerable progress has been made with regard to implementation. This presentation from Session 84 of the SOA May 2004 Anaheim Spring Meeting gives the attendees a review of the proposal, progress made to date, and implications for actuarial education and training programs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 1.

Description: The conventional methods for genetic analyses of data on aging and longevity-related traits underutilize available information on aging, health and life span and treat the limited data set as the only source of information about the traits. We show that the power and biological relevance of GWAS can be enhanced by incorporating the biological and demographic principles of trait formation into the backbone of genetic analyses, through appropriate mathematical models and statistical functions, and by incorporating genetic questions into a comprehensive framework of dynamic analyses of longitudinal data. In this paper we use Framingham Heart Study data from the original cohort to show how genetic factors are associated with age trajectories of physiological variables and other biomarkers. The approach allows for incorporating hidden biomarkers of aging into the stochastic process model of aging and mortality and evaluate age their age patterns fr om the data for individuals with different genetic background.

Description: Panel session exploring a variety of issues connected to long-term disability reserve buyouts, including: · Advantages and risks for buyers and sellers · Use of appropriate reserving assumptions · Possible financial structures for a buyout

Description: In this article the author notes that investment strategy development is fundamentally a communications exercise between the investment and actuarial functions. The article explores four questions with respect to investment strategy: 1 how to make money 2 how to avoid earnings fluctuations 3 how to avoid catastrophic loss and 4 how to choose a new investment idea.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed new disability tables being proposed to the NAIC for valuation. Discussion covered history of the development of the tables and Barnhart's proposal for a change in method for determining the statutory minimum LTD open claim reserves.

Description: This session is about the major factors affecting economic growth in the next five to ten years with major focus on expected population shifts, labor force growth, productivity movement, inflation factors and major components of demand and the outlook for 1980 for wages and prices, and describes how that outlook could be affected by various government policies. An assessment will be provided of the inflation outlook for the decade of the 1980's. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.

Description: Panel discussion about the business, regulatory, and consumer issues relating to loss ratios for Accident & Health Insurance. From the 1980 Society of Actuaries Spring Meeting in Minneapolis, as published in the 1980 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: Previous Benefit Cost metrics measure financial stress imposed on multiemployer pension plans by unfunded liabilities and declining number participants.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This open forum for small-company issues addressed cash flow testing, RBC, variable annuities, capital needs, distribution capacity, and tracking legislation.