Description: This presentation, session number 97PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 16-18 in Seattle. The presenters look at the adequacy of state insurance regulation by examining the purpose and intent of the McCarran-Ferguson Act. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of state regulation, and “whether the public interest is best served by 1 the states or the federal government being the primary regulators of insurance or 2 some system of bifurcated regulatory authority shared between the states and the federal government.” Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on the impact of a changing environment on personal security programs. Some of the issues addressed include regulations, taxes, consumerism, Social Security, inflation, and age/sex composition of work force.

Description: This keynote debate from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting addresses if the Society of Actuaries is adequately equipping its members for the role their employers and clients should expect of them. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: The author notes that “there is reason to expect 1981 to be the biggest year for Social Security legislation since 1977, perhaps even since 1972. The author further notes that the Congress will be forced to act to bring the system into financial balance. The article discusses some of the actions apt to be considered for legislative action including inter-fund borrowing, general fund borrowing, general revenue financing, changes in retirement age, changes in indexing, move towards universal coverage, and others.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which is Part I of an series on Actuarial Demographics.

Description: This is a general session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting that includes panelists debating the topic of whether the SOA is failing to equip its members for the role their employees and clients should expect of them.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest newsletter discussing reform of the U.S. health care system.

Description: This article talks about the Board of Governors' decision to not pursue accreditation of the F.S.A. designation with state insurance commissioners for purposes of rendering opinions on life insurance company reserves.

Description: The most important purpose of this open forum is to provide a forum at which interested persons can make specific suggestions about what the research needs of the profession are and how they might most effectively be carried out. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.