Description: This presentation at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the value of a valuation actuary in the life/health business. The discussion focuses on regualtory changes, reserve adequacy, cash flow testing, and the actuarial memorandum.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed product design of Equity Indexed products, interest crediting strategies, investment risks, hedging issues, and internal controls and risk management for companies getting started in the derivatives market.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis is analysis and sensitivity testing and stress testing. Stated another way it is measuring the ability of a company to support future operations. The panelists provided an update on recent Society research that has been done and examples in practice.

Description: This teaching session discusses the new separate account annual statement blank for 1978. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 4.

Description: This paper shows the application of a threshold strategy on the surplus level of an insurance risk model results in a process that can be analyzed as a doubly infinite Markov chain with finite blocks. The resulting procedures are then used to calculate the probability distributions for time of ruin, the surplus immediately prior to ruin, and the deficit at ruin. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2008, Vol.1.