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: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. This teaching session deals with the use of reinsurance in the strategy of carriers' approaches to the long-term-care marketplace. Specifically, it discusses the market potential of LTC and the benefits of reinsurer expertise, smoothing of claims variability and protection from excess risk, the pros and cons of selling another carrier's plan, and types of reinsurance.

Description: This session 35PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting addresses the role financial reinsurance has taken in solving two very current issues: reinsuring closed blocks from demutualized companies and funding XXX reserves. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 35PD.

Description: Do you wish that you could join in when your friends talk about combined coinsurance/modified coinsurance? Do you feel out of place at parties when the discussion turns to the advantages of quota share versus excess arrangements? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 1. From session 13TS of the Las Vegas Spring Meeting.