Description: Full version of International Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 20.

Description: This panel discussion considers some of the approaches, techniques and problems in the development of corporate models and assumptions. The pros and cons of buying versus developing models was discussed and the use of deterministic versus stochastic models was addressed as well.

Description: This discussion focuses on actuarial reports to management. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This article provides an overview of the sessions at the twelfth annual Actuarial Research Conference, held September 8-10, 1977 at New York University. The conference, jointly sponsored by the Society’s Committees on Research and on Economics and Finance and the NYU Graduate School of Business, was structured around the theme of “Modeling Financial Markets.”

Description: In their first joint meeting, the Chicago and Wisconsin Clubs undertook a noble experiment - inviting several qualified observers to rate actuaries’ achievement. This account, by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Wisconsin Club, may be useful to Program Directors of other clubs. The panel for what

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 22 is the second part of the Practitioners' Forum. The goal of the session is to identify and discuss some of the major issues and concerns that ought to be on the minds of actuarial managers and senior actuaries as they look at the environment and look into the future at some of the things coming at us.