Description: The image campaign for the actuarial profession is described. From Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 11OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. The panelists note that defined benefit [DB] pension actuaries are finding themselves working in new and expanded roles in the new millennium, and discuss the answers to challenging questions raised by working in this environment, such as what additional training is recommended, and what the unique challenges and rewards are. The panelists look at the future with respect to the DB actuary, with respect to less traditional roles in that area as well as opportunities in the area of defined contribution plans. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters addressed the skills needed by actuaries to compete for business opportunities leading to advancement, and describe one company's approach to the issue. Skills discussed: 1. Communication. 2· Management. 3· Crossover . 4· General insurance knowledge. 5· Leadership.

Description: The presenter examined the concept of customer intimacy as a way to maintain a viable position in a competitive market. He then develops the concept of customer intimacy as a way to maintain a viable position in a competitive market. Finally, he covers the information, product/delivery, organizational, and performance measurement strategies that a company should follow to achieve customer intimacy.

Description: From session 60PD at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, Panel examines a range of issues surrounding the organization of the actuarial department of an insurance company.

Description: From session 77IF at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, panelists explore the workings of the Actuarial Standards Board.

Description: Table of Contents for the May 1999 Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses issues related to the more direct involvement of actuaries on the asset side of the balance sheet.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. The CEO of the ACLI provided his views on insurance industry issues and the role of the actuary.

Description: This is the table of contents to discussions published from the Washington, D.C. Meeting held October 26-29, 1997. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.

Description: This is the table of contents to discussions published from the Orlando Meeting–October 27–30, 1996. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers topics and methods for better coordination between actuaries and investment professionals. The session will concentrate on the coordination of pricing, crediting, and investment strategies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting examines ethics from the standpoint of the actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. Table of contents From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3B, San Antonio Meeting of the Society of Actuaries on June 15-17, 1994.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session the panelists led the audience through case studies that required the development of various difficult assumptions where experience is limited. The panel discussed the key issues and how they would go about developing each assumption.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session provided an overview on the following issues regarding solvency analysis: 1. Will the actuary perform a financial condition analysis or provide an opinion on solvency? 2. Will the analysis be for internal use only or for public reporting? 3. Progress on the SOA's Dynamic Solvency Handbook. 4. Dynamic solvency research. 5. Canadian experience with solvency testing.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. List of sessions and workshops with no written record. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 2

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. Table of contents from Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 2 of 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco, May 26-27, 1994.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about identifying international opportunities, positioning yourself for those opportunities, determining skills needed, and comparing with skills you have.

Description: Table of contents from Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 1in Orlando on April 20-22, 1994.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about the actuary's developing role in regulating insurance worldwide.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session discussed the SOA research structure and provided an update on projects and experience studies.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This is a list of workshops and sessions from the 1994 SOA Spring Meeting at Orlando with no written record. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 1.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. Table of contents of 1993 SOA Annual Meeting held in New York on October 17-20, 1993 from Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session was held before the passage of NAFTA. The participants provided their thoughts about its potential passage and associated implications from their three perspectives - US, Canada, and Mexico.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. List of workshops and sessions with no written record at the 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 4B.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session was geared towards goal setting for actuaries who manage functional areas, departments, or divisions. Topics included: the reasons why goal setting and achievement are often ineffective, the key success factors in setting and achieving goals, and a proven methodology for setting and achieving goals.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session provided an overview of the insurance industry around the world. Topics included: 1. What does it take to become an actuary in foreign countries? 2. Professional Standards of Practice. 3. Disciplinary Standards. 4. Education programs supported by the SOA in developing countries.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This is the list of sessions with no written record from 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 19, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This is a list of sessions with no written record from the 1993 SOA Spring Meeting in San Diego.

Description: Discussion of the current business environment, the profile of the actuary who can meet these needs, directions corporations will take in the 21st century, economic and demographic trends that will affect the environment and markets over the next decade. The panelists discussed the need to be pro-active in shaping the environment.

Description: In this “nontraditional” general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, the panelists, a “judge,” a “defendant,” and a “prosecutor” present a humorous “trial” to explore what the boundaries of “traditional” actuarial work are. A theme of the session is that some of what we call “nontraditional” is an expansion of traditional actuarial work, and that we owe it to our public to broaden our horizons. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual meeting is about global dynamic - definition, effect on the actuarial profession, actuaries and insurers response to it.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about what do we need to do as a profession in order to prepare ourselves and our profession as a whole for the needs and demands of the future. Focus is on education, research, professionalism, and public relations.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on the relationship between the pricing actuary and the valuation actuary from the standpoint of each.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about incentive compensation in the life insurance industry including the need for such plans, plan design issues and performance measures.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting discusses the design and implementation of employee benefits from the viewpoints of a consultant, a corporate client, an insurance company, and also from a collective bargaining perspective.

Description: This session discussion is about fellowship admissions course, what it is, when will it happen and to whom does it affect? From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: List of workshops and sessions from the New York Annual Meeting with no written record. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: Panelists were members of the Actuary of the Future/Future of the Actuary Task Force of the Society of Actuaries [SOA]. They discussed the topics in their report to the SOA Board of Governors that related to a description of the current profession, the demand for actuaries in the 21st Century, what actuaries will be doing in the 21st Century, and implications for the selection, education, and training of actuaries. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: People who have been there discuss feeling good about yourself in a time of change, re-organization, mandatory job changes, voluntary job changes, new responsibilities, and effects on the family. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the Valuation Actuary, the changing role and the actuarial opinion. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses current regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including smoker/non-smoker mortality tables, unisex legislation being considered and life insurance without guaranteed cash values. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: This document summarizes the meeting of the Individual Life Insurance and Annuity Product Design Section that occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting of this section consisted of a report to members, role and purpose of the section, and an open discussion.

Description: This meeting session, which occurred at the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a look ahead as of 1982 at opportunities for actuaries in the 1980's and 1990's. Questions addressed by the panel included: i. Will traditional opportunities be reduced? 2. What non-traditional opportunities are available? 3. What changes are needed in our educational process? 4. How do we make non-traditional employers aware of actuarial skills and their value? 5. What will actuarial work be like? 6. Some perspectives on the situation in Canada as it moves toward more government ownership and control of financial security programs

Description: The most important purpose of this open forum is to provide a forum at which interested persons can make specific suggestions about what the research needs of the profession are and how they might most effectively be carried out. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: This 1981 session concerned Actuaries and the Media. Topics included: 1. How do the media decide what is newsworthy? 2. What makes news, and how is it defined, both for the general public and a specific industry? 3. What makes news from the actuarial profession? 4. Why is a story news today but not news tomorrow? 5. What variables are involved in making news, and how do these change from day to day and from publication to publication? 6. How do the media cover public issues? 7. What do the media look for in interviews and background information? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the state of the actuarial profession in 1981 and how each US actuarial organization supports the profession. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Description: This meeting session presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis, provides an overview and discussion panel related to the original formation of SOA Sections. The document provides an explanation and overview to section development. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion was presented at the 1980 SOA Spring Meeting in Minneapolis. The topic was the work of the actuary in the future including skills needed, future economic and demographic developments, and what new roles and functions will emerge. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion explores the basic principles of futurism, who are the futurist, The Trend Analysis Program of the American Council of Life Insurance TAP and possibilities for actuaries with respect to futurism.

Description: This 1978 session focused on education for the profession and expanding roles of the actuary. Topics include i. Education for an expanding actuarial profession.2. Expanding the actuary's role in life, property and liability insurance From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1976 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 2, No. 3. These records were taken from the Chicago meeting of the Society of Actuaries held June 3-4, 1976.

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