Description: Attendees at session 41 OF of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium are encouraged to send in their hot button issues, as panelists will offer their perspective and encourage participation.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. The panelists discussed issues arising from current financial trends that have had a more profound impact in restructuring our professional life than in any similar period in memory.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 This session covers different methods for estimating future volatility of financial markets, how to predict the effect of volatility on insurance company results, alternative approaches to managing volatility and the impact on volatility management on the choice of modeling method.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists discussed a comprehensive risk management approach to quantify the risk exposure from various sources.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents their approach to an integrated risk management framework that assesses the level of risk in the organization and where it lies on the balance sheet.

Description: In this session 94PD of the SOA Annual Meeting in New York the panel examines the communications link between the technical world of actuarial measurement based on cash-flow testing and the real world or daily and strategic decision making at top levels of insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: From session 14TS at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000. This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate, along with stress testing.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Equity-indexed products require an asset strategy that matches the equity options embedded in the liability. The panel discusses the following: A. Two asset strategies 1. Purchasing equity options that match the liability options: Is this a perfect match or are there still unhedged risks? 2. Dynamic hedging using the mathematics of “the Greeks”: Is it self-insuring? B. Accounting issues with these strategies

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 The panelists discuss the benefits of hedging variable annuity guarantees, the challenges they face and how they keep score.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues related to variable and fixed deferred annuity modeling.