Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on repricing the in-force book of business addressed ASB requirements, data gathering, assumption setting, modeling considerations, coordination with financial areas, par versus interest-sensitive products, and communicating results to management.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session presents and discusses the NAIC's model bill for risk-based capital as it relates to health insurance.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session addressed some of the unanswered questions with respect to Appointed Actuary issues. Questions addressed: • Should stockholder dividends be included in the appointed actuary's reserve/asset adequacy analysis? • How are appointed actuaries handling Section 7 Opinions in states that have not yet adopted the model regulations? • How are appointed actuaries addressing the aggregate requirement in the state of filing? • What about retroactive/extraterritorial reserve requirements? • Are appointed actuaries addressing the going-concern issues for undercapitalized companies? Should they?

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: Update on the potential impact of national health law legislation, and discussion of the influence of inflation on both the relation between actual and expected claims, and the design of new benefits and administrative procedures. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the panelists debated the diversity of professional practice about how companies and regulators can and should measure profit and set standards for profit margins. One panelist spoke of the traditional actuarial perspective, while the other represented the modern theory of finance.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This 1992 session on the Statutory Valuation Opinion covered the following topics: 1. Regulatory issues and the amendments to the standard valuation law. 2. Practical considerations, such as accumulating data, setting assumptions and creating models. 3. Issues and considerations involved in cash-flow testing.