Description: Panelists discuss the demand for actuaries in the 21st Century, what actuaries will be doing in the 21st Century, and implications for the selection, education and training of actuaries. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4A.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting is a debate on the pros and cons of three alternative reporting methods -Embedded [Economic] Value, Fair Value and U.S. GAAP - as measures of shareholder-value creation and as pricing tools. Each speaker describes his preferred method, emphasizing the uses and advantages of the method, and critiques the other methods.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about the regulatory environment for banking and insurance, the crossover opportunities and the various types of sales distribution alternatives. Consideration also will be given to the obstacles in such a relationship, including corporate culture and the various risks involved for both the bank and the insurance company.

Description: Panel for session 46SM/L of the New York Annual Meeting presents an update on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Accounting Standards Board activities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about Dynamic Solvency Handbook developed by The Financial and Investment Management Practice Education Committee. The handbook is for actuaries who prepare solvency reports, and the targeted completion date was December 31, 1994.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the American Academy of Actuaries research on valuation and insurance in 14 countries in light of the movement of the NAIC toward a new valuation law.

Description: From session 43TS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Presenters discuss the growing pressure, due to the globalization of commerce and industry, for a uniform set of worldwide accounting standards, and the form that these standard are likely to take.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Applicable accounting rules, Replaced policies' unamortized acquisition costs, Capitalizing additional acquisition costs for new policies, Anti-selection on mortality experience of residual block, New policies' appropriate lapse, mortality and interest assumptions, Loss recognition testing, Differences in accounting treatment between the United States and Canada.

Description: At this session 4PD of the SOA Annual Meeting in New York the panel discusses issues stemming from an AAA study of valuation and insurance in 14 countries on 5 continents, and what the U.S. could learn from these findings. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about changes to the regulations for statutory reporting. Some of the issues covered are new reserve laws, regulations for term insurance reserves, update rules for asset valuation reserve, interest maintenance reserve, and risk-based capital RBC.