Description: This article is a discussion about the trends and changes affecting the life insurance industry by impacting product growth. Read how today's ideas can become tomorrow's successes.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussion was about the performance measurement in a risk/return context, incentive compensation as a tool for achieving effective performance, and return attribution using liability-based performance indices.

Description: Discusses the emerging issue of non-formulaic reserves, which surrounds principles-based reserving, in a Q&A format.

Description: This presentation, session number 97PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The presenters look at the adequacy of state insurance regulation by examining the purpose and intent of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of state regulation, and “whether the public interest is best served by 1 the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or 2 some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about statutory and GAAP financial reporting activities of the NAIC, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Actuarial Standards Board, American Academy of Actuaries, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SEC, and the SOA Committee on Actuarial Principles.

Description: Discussed are some of the major effects of the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 in areas other than funding. Topics included are calculation of lump sums, 415 limits, creation of the missing participants program, elimination of the excise tax for some non deductible contributions, and changes in the variable rate program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the problems with bulk reinsurance, self-administered reinsurance, bulk reporting in facultative reinsurance, certification reports by an actuary and audits.

Description: Paper examines issues of mortality and valuation in connection with annuities in Germany. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.