Description: In session 140 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss issues related to equity-indexed annuity EIA products. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Historically low interest rates, historically high equity market volatility and ever increasing life spans have made pension funding a hot topic. Financing the lifestyles of the superannuated through steadily improving investment performance is no longer a given. Market realities and stricter regulatory funding requirements are forcing plan sponsors to reduce overly optimistic assumptions about how well their investments will perform and increase assumptions about how long they will have to last. A growing number of well-known corporations are looking for help in trying to make the math work. This article discusses the opportunities for all who want to take on longevity risk.

Description: This report presents the results of a survey conducted in August of 2008 on foreign travel underwriting practices of reinsurance companies.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the Business Mens Assurance's computerized mortality study on its reinsured business. It also discusses smoker/non-smoker mortality assumptions, surplus relief via traditional coinsurance and mod-co and TEFRA impact on reinsurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

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: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1992 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This article makes reference to a session on financial reinsurance at the 2007 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, noting that the speakers at the meeting made a case that with respect to life reinsurance, “the rating agencies should have a more positive view of financial reinsurance,” and clarified that the recent problems arose on the property-casualty side, where financial reinsurance was used to smooth earnings.

Description: This article discusses the goal of the Society's new Task Force on Banks and Financial Institutions which is how the actuarial role can be extended into financial institutions.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about how rating agencies think about reinsurance. Topics discussed: 1. How do various rating agencies view reinsurance? 2. How do new RBC standards impact rating agencies' view regarding reinsurance? 3. To what extent do ceding companies factor in rating agency concerns in their reinsurance decision making?