Description: This session presents information sources used in tracking health technologies, the value of health technology assessments and clinical data typically available. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 4

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.

Description: The article discusses that drawbacks of the HJM Heath-Jarrow-Morton class of stochastic interest models and suggests the use of the Longstaff-Schwartz string model. It describes the use and benefits of the Lonstaff-Schwartz string model.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss legislative and regulatory developments in the pension area which have occurred just prior to the meeting, and their effect on the pension practitioner. Topics include recent Internal Revenue Service [IRS] guidance on closing agreements for pension plans with tax compliance errors, including sanctions, rules relating to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and Internal Revenue Code [IRC] Section 404c, concerning pension plan investments. There was also some discussion on retiree health plans and Medicare. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. In introducing the speaker, the session leader notes the global similarity of the actuarial profession’s interests and concerns in that “issues such as solvency, professional conduct, and standards of practice are being discussed everywhere.” The guest speaker, editor in chief of ‘The Economist,’ discusses the rapidly changing world in light of the recent collapse of communism and current geopolitical and economic trends. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate.

Description: A panel discussion of the organizational problems facing the actuarial profession and the way the Actuarial Restructuring Committee, ARC, proposal has been designed to respond to these problems. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 2.

Description: Discusses the emerging issue of non-formulaic reserves, which surrounds principles-based reserving, in a Q&A format.