Description: A panel of chief risk officers CROs discuss their roles, responsibilities and challenges in implementing and managing risk within an insurance enterprise. Topics related to the measurement and management of risk to be covered are: organization of the risk management function key CRO responsibilities measurement infrastructure process of measuring and managing risk risk culture and assimilation of risk into the organization management buy in and support operational risk credit risk risk aggregation the role of risk economic capital and Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO enterprise risk management framework. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2, Spring Meeting, San Antonio, TX, June 14-15, 2004, Session 20PD.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting discusses the bestselling book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan. The discussion focuses on turning strategy into success through execution. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting addresses the changing role of the consulting actuary and the opportunities, problems, and rewards of becoming more heavily involved in the marketing of services and/or the management of a practice area. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: In this presentation made at the 1975 Society of Actuaries annual meeting, the speaker addresses the concept of actuaries as futurists, simply by being actuaries. The speaker then defines a futurist as “very simply, the executive who takes the future environment seriously. Most of us let the urgent affairs of today drive out the important affairs of tomorrow. By ‘environment’ I mean the social, technological, economic, and political environment.” The presentation goes on emphasize that the futurist must overcome shortsightedness and tunnel vision.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. The presenters at this session discuss the content, frequency, and format of management reports, budgeting and its role in the planning process, and integration of reporting with the planning process.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers the challenges faced by senior executives in managing all of the various groups including policyholders, shareholders, rating agencies, regulators, agents and employees of an insurance organization. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: Discusses developing an investment strategy for new products, inconsistencies between pricing and financial-reporting models, and total return on the investment portfolio versus total return to the company. These topics are addressed from the perspectives of [1] a corporate actuarial department head, [2] a consultant to life companies in these areas, and [3] a preeminent risk-management actuary. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about a comparison and adaptation of the principles followed by companies praised in current management literature.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. In this paper, a case study is utilized to understand the thought process that ratings agencies, such as A.M. Best and Standard and Poor's, use to evaluate insurance company financial strength.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The speaker addresses the art of taking criticism and offers specific strategies that enable one to use criticism to his/her own advantage, including how to appraise the validity of criticism, dealing with the destructive critic, handling critical customers and clients, how to keep from becoming defensive, how to change your own behavior, and getting the critical edge. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.