Description: This 1981 session dealt with Influencing Legislation and Regulation including: I. The legislative and regulatory processes. 2. What are hearings? What is their purpose, and who participates? 3. A look at how an actuary can affect the process. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on three North American actuarial organizations - Canadian Institute of Actuaries, American Academy of Actuaries, Mexican Actuarial Association - their activities, outlook, and their relationship to each other and the SOA.

Description: The panel discussed conservation strategies for permanent and term insurance. Topics included: 1.Impact on in-force business from new products e.g., continuous reduction in ART rails, non-smoker discounts, universal life: increased policy loans?, replacements?, lapses?, surrenders and _exchanges? 2. Responses from companies: e.g. extension of new cost methods to existing policyholders?, Field compensation when replacing existing business?, internal conservation functions?, update programs policyholder/agent communication strategies? applicability of new products to in-force policyholders. 3. Interest groups which must be considered and differences between stock vs. mutual companies? e.g. Policyholder, agent/broker, management, stockholders, prospective policyholder, legal/regulatory forces IRS, SEC, state insurance departments. 4. Appropriate financial considerations and anticipated results? Is stonewalling a viable alternative? GAAP effects statutory effects use of reinsurance field force compensation/survival, anticipated future mortality results, Federal Income Taxes.

Description: In this panel discussion session, the participants discuss programs to update existing life insurance policyholders, which some companies have implemented in light of rapidly changing economic conditions, namely inflation.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at a 1976 SOA Meeting, covered issues related to professional conduct and independence of the actuary. From the 1976 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 2, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is an overview of the Meeting from the Record of the SOA Vol.6 No. 1. The session summarizes points from each concurrent session of the meeting and includes issues about the effect of governmental actions and consumerism on product design and pricing of the future, risk classification in the 1980's, nonforfeiture and valuation concerns in the 1980's and effect of taxation in the 1980's.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses federal income tax and life insurance including specific products - UL, Annuities and Modified Premium Whole Life, Stop Gap, and phantom dividends. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the future of whole life insurance reviewing a comparison of whole life and a combination product of annual renewable term and flexible premium annuity, the decline in whole life and UL's advantages and disadvantages as the product of the future. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This 1977 session presented dramatic scenarios of situations related to professional conduct. The audience was asked to react to the situations and provide their thoughts on the appropriateness of the situations. From the 1977 Record, Vol. 3, No. 4.

Description: This material from the 1981 SOA Fall Meeting is a collection of impromptu questions and comments from an Open Forum session on policy loans. The purpose of this session is to discuss the policy loan rates, equity between borrowers and non-borrowers, and equity among groups of policy-owners having different contractual loan rates. The variable loan rate proposal and direct recognition are also covered. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.