Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that continuing education can be much more efficiently accomplished if it is planned, the speakers discuss the development of their own continuing education plans, in the broader sense of career and professional development. Another topic of discussion is the Society of Actuaries’ ‘Professional Actuarial Specialty Guides’ and the committee that has done a tremendous amount of work in putting them together. Participants are asked to review their career development plans using a self-scoring test instrument. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Suggestions have been made that life insurance cash values should depend on the prospective mortality, based on underwriting, of the insured evaluated at the time a cash value is applied for. This paper explores a simple model for determining cash values on such a basis and some practical problems associated with it.

Description: Panel examined the predictions for the future published by the late James C. H. Anderson, leading to a discussion of limitations on the actuary's ability to predict the future.

Description: Complete Actuarial Futures newsletter from January 1998.

Description: Presenters compare actuarial predictions made in 1989 with the actual occurrences and developments of 1999. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This presentation at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting explains the concept of futures studies as opposed to predicting the future. Various possible future scenarios are discussed especially with respect to the actuarial profession.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting looks at the considerations in designing field compensation plans including New York vs. non-New York issues and levelized commissions.

Description: The purpose of this paper was to examine the job and compensation of the ordinary life insurance agent in relation to commissions and expense regulation and to examine how well the industry responds to customer needs, and consider how the system might be changed. The paper establishes some criteria for evaluating appropriateness of systems of both agent compensation and expense regulation. The paper is followed by submitted discussion papers

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provides a brief overview of futurism techniques which can be employed in the strategic planning process, such as environmental scans or Delphi studies. A case study approach is used to provide attendees with a hands-on learning process.

Description: In session 72OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss alternatives that companies are considering in the compensation area, including levelized commissions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.