Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: Futures, Options, Floating rate securities, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Leased equipment, Joint ventures, Stripped securities, Zero coupon bonds, Mortgage pools, Sales - leasebacks.

Description: Discussed the beginning of the Investment Section of the Society of Actuaries. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses regulatory topics affecting life insurance and annuity product development including Unisex rating, UL reserves and non-forfeiture values, policies without guaranteed cash surrender values, and smoker/non-smoker mortality tables. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses managing risks via product design and investment strategy, and overview of the market and the risks.

Description: This panel discussion session focuses on activities related to deferred annuities including methods of reflecting fluctuating interest rates in amounts credited to contract-holders, recent product design innovations, and reserves.

Description: Panel discussion session examining individual retirement account competition including products offered by banks, stock brokerage firms,mutual fund companies, and insurers. Discussion of market share of each type of financial institution in the IRA market.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting is a business meeting from the Individual Life Insurance And Annuity Product Development Section. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 4

Description: This is a discussion from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting on individual annuity product design under conditions of inflation. It highlights the design and testing of annuity products in an inflationary envirnonmnet, the marketing and distribution of annuities, the importance of asset/liability matching and surplus and valuation considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the implications of UNISEX legislation and the Norris Decision, the impact of the proposed tax law, variable products and Large Amount Term Insurance persistency and mortality. Record of Society of Actuaries Vol.9, No. 4

Description: Panelists who have been a part of integrated actuarial and investment functions at their companies discuss initial concerns from each side, the need for initial and ongoing coordination, the effect of company philosophies on the resulting combination, and realized and potential results and pitfalls. This session was held only days after the October 1987 stock-market crash. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.