Description: 1999 SOA Spring Meeting, Atlanta. This session addressed the risks and potential costs of long-term guarantees in some insurance products. Topics included: · Guaranteed annuity purchase rates - how close are current rates to the guarantees? · Guaranteed minimum credited rates. · Guaranteed bonus rates.

Description: Panelists provide an educational description of Lloyd's of London, including its Equitas reconstruction and renewal program. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This document is an an address presented by the Honorable Dr. Henry Wallich at the April 1976 Washington D.C. meeting on the topic of how to protect savings during a time of inflation.

Description: A presentation that summarizes and analyzes the risks catastrophe bond investors are exposed to and have to be aware of.

Description: In session 69PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the proposed/adopted versions of the new NAIC model investment law, and their potential financial and investment strategy impact on insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: In session 74 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists examine the necessary steps to ensure that both customers and boards are comfortable with the investment activities of mutual fund managers. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session reviewed the state of developments on the draft of the NAIC Model Investment Law.

Description: This session explores where financial engineering is applied, who is “leading the charge,” and what are the current and future roles of actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 55PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: A controversial alternative to ERISA/FASB actuarial cost methods and assumptions is presented as a challenge from the discipline of financial economics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 37PD of the Dallas Spring Meeting.

Description: This session discussion is about deterioration in claims-paying ability, financial well-being of life insurance companies, benchmark surplus standards, key operation ratios, credit analysis of asset holdings, market view of stock companies, adequacy of capital in the industry, appropriate risk/reward posture in the industry, advice to management, outlook for the various business and views on surplus relief devices. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.