Description: There is often a disconnect between the way products are priced IRR and embedded value methods and the way business performance is measured once it is already on the books GAAP and GAAP ROE. This article discusses the theoretical reasons for this disconnect and how an accounting system could be developed to eliminate the disconnect and thereby align investor and management expectations with the financial reporting system.

Description: Full version of Risk Management, November 2005, Issue No. 6.

Description: The full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 54, September 2003.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers economics, investment-related assumptions for use in long-term models and how to determine those investment-related assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3, Session.

Description: In session 103I of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss issues related to the selling of life insurance over the internet. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Competition for space in distribution channels has resulted in a proliferation of exotic options embedded in variable annuity products. This article discusses how this has created a need which can be addressed, in part, by hedging variable annuity guarantees with long-dated equity derivatives.

Description: In session 3PD of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discusses solutions such as data software and interface standards as possible solutions to the problem of having many different data storage and analysis systems that don't speak to each other. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss annuity risk management and how this can be applied to new product development, as well as in-force product management. Also discussed are the proposed C-3 Phase II capital determinations for various guarantees with and without a hedging program.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 35, Number 2 - February 2001

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this session on data and interoperability standards for actuaries, the panel discusses the importance of open data standards which enable communication and transmission of data between different systems developed by different vendors. They also discuss the attached white paper entitled 'Proposed Data Standards for Table Data in the Insurance and Pension Industries' which was written by the Computer Science Section of the SOA to encourage adoption of the described standard.