Description: This session is about recent population experience, likely causes, probable future prospects, Industry mortality differentials and trends by product line,market and type of underwriting, What statistically credible evidence do we have for the efficacy of life insurance underwriting practices, What does the new Intercompany Standard Issues study show and Are there sound biological laws of mortality. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reversion rates and mortality on non-reverted lives, mortality experience versus mortality tables, select and ultimate term insurance products and the developing experience for term insurance.

Description: An increasing need exists for the actuary to provide ranges and frequency distributions of possible values instead of providing only mean values. This discussion will cover: projections of asset experience under various economic scenarios, a practical application of profit analysis using scenarios and a deterministic model, exploring possible values by means of stochastic modeling, and a description of the new life contingencies textbook's stochastic approach and application to some practical population and census problems. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1981, Volume 7, No. 4.

Description: In session 142OF of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss key existing research projects as well as suggestions for new projects. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The session discussed the C-3 risk, not the C-1 risk in the title. It explored the question: For testing purposes, how does one create the investment scenarios to which you expose your assets and liabilities?

Description: In this session 93PD of the 1998 New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss three levels of protection available to bank depositors and insurance purchasers in the United States. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1981 SOA Spring Meeting discusses how the insurance industry will fare under different economic conditions according to an economotric model by Data Resources - DRI. The session also reviews how to incorporate inflation into actuarial calculations and the prospects and possiblities regarding inflation. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting focuses on non-traditional employment for actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This panel discussion presented at the April 1976 SOA meeting in Washington D.C. presents opinions and information related to investment policy in a changing economy.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion presents an introduction to Monte Carlo and why it is used for integration and valuation of complex formulas. Moreover, results using low-discrepancy sequences instead of the Monte Carlo simulation for pension fund analysis is shared.