Description: This presentation was session number 32PD at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. This session provides an overview of recent and potential developments and future developments in statutory reserving for life insurance products. Topics include Regulation XXX, variable and equity-indexed universal life reserves, state variations, tax considerations, offshore reinsurance, unified valuation systems, American Academy of Actuaries Extended Maturity Option Work Group developments, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum revisions, new Commissioners' Standard Ordinary mortality tables, and trends in valuation interest rates and the Applicable Federal Interest Rates. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This report was presented at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C.. It presented supplementary information on the 1979 Build and Blood Pressure Study. This supplementary study was made to answer a number of specific questions raised by medical directors and actuaries of life insurance companies as well as by some prominent physicians and research scientists.

Description: This session is from the 1976 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Toronto in October. The presenters cover the following Group Insurance topics: Survivor Income Group Life Insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Insurance, and new products and development.

Description: The disastrous events of September 11, 2001 have focused the reinsurance community’s attention on the subject of managing concentration of risk. A panel of experts discusses: Techniques for limiting exposure, Impact on group and COLI/BOLI insurance and Changes in the catastrophe reinsurance market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Washington D.C. Spring Meeting, May 29–30, 2003Session 65PD.

Description: This presentation is a Health Section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The session leader, the incoming chair of the section, covers administrative matters, and then the next speaker addresses a newly completed research project, sponsored by the Society and Health Section, on the variation by duration in small group medical insurance claim costs. The speakers then discuss current developments in small group reform, and the various parties involved, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], and the Health Insurance Association of America [HIAA], and the work that has been done, including modeling to address the impact of a small group reform mechanism. The speakers discuss how the various parties' objectives can differ. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the small and mini-group market including trends in plan design, underwriting strategies, approaches to marketing compensation and claim cost containment strategies. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers Term Insurance including mortality and persistency experience and the impact of lapsation on profitability, mortality assumptions specifically with regard to smoker/non-smoker and reinsurance. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: Panelists discuss the process and challenges presented by mergers or acquisitions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss last-to-die and joint life insurance plans, noting their increasing popularity. The topics of discussion include plan design, regulatory issues, administration, tax issues, policy splitting provisions and the markets for these plans. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting discusses the Society of Actuaries research activities directly related to dynamic solvency testing - DST. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 21, No. 1.