Description: The presenters describe the process payers and employers can use to evaluate emerging medical device technologies, recent or pending FDA submissions for prescription drugs and experimental treatments that impact patient care, resource utilization and health care expenditures. Learn the process of identifying and selecting impactful treatments (Horizon Scanning) and quantifying the financial cost of new technologies before they arrive in the market. These workflows can be leveraged by actuaries, healthcare economists, clinicians and pharmacists from a payer (Commercial and Medicare) and employer perspective for self-funded plans. Walk through sample models that illustrate how costs for emerging technologies and treatments can be modeled.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers insolvencies of insurance companies in the U.S., developments within the IAA with respect to solvency assessment and risk measurement. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers the growing area of enterprise risk management ERM. It provides an overview of an ERM framework as well as issues and challenges of implementation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: In this session 116 PD of the New York Annual Meeting the panel discusses factors which led to the development of alternative risk transfer transactions in the property and casualty markets, and review techniques used to transfer and trade insurance risks within the capital markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is a panel discussion on the status of the valuation actuary and the change in the valuation law.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents their approach to an integrated risk management framework that assesses the level of risk in the organization and where it lies on the balance sheet.

Description: Presenters in this session 14TS of the Monteal Spring Meeting introduce seasoned actuaries to the new material on the Finance Track of the Education and Examination syllabus. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: The panel discusses: 1. How fund transfers may affect expense recoveries through fee revenue 2.How transfers between fixed and variable funds may impact required capital 3. Product design features that affect the risk profile of the product and 4. Modeling considerations to quantify the policyholder behavior risk. From session 113PD of the 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting.

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: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panel examined the failure of three major life insurance companies in North America: Executive Life, Mutual Benefit, and Confederation Life, changes that have taken place in the aftermath of these failures, and the likelihood of future failures.