Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Discussion of financial restructuring trends and the impact of those trends on the insurance industry and challenges for those companies that have recently experienced some form of financial restructuring.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. Panelists in this session discussed embedded-value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between EV and fair value, and whether embedded value and fair value are evolving into a single, principles-based measure of value.