Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists discuss legislative and regulatory developments in the pension area which have occurred just prior to the meeting, and their effect on the pension practitioner. Topics include recent Internal Revenue Service [IRS] guidance on closing agreements for pension plans with tax compliance errors, including sanctions, rules relating to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and Internal Revenue Code [IRC] Section 404c, concerning pension plan investments. There was also some discussion on retiree health plans and Medicare. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3B.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Senior executives in various financial services companies discussed the future of financial services and the role the actuary can play.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. In introducing the speaker, the session leader notes the global similarity of the actuarial profession’s interests and concerns in that “issues such as solvency, professional conduct, and standards of practice are being discussed everywhere.” The guest speaker, editor in chief of ‘The Economist,’ discusses the rapidly changing world in light of the recent collapse of communism and current geopolitical and economic trends. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: Panelist discuss lifestyle issues and their effects on medical costs, both for managing costs and for making decisions about plan design. Topics include employer responses, lifestyle-based profiling, and obesity. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31 No. 2, Session 27

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 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.

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: The absract for the paper Increased Longevity and the Challenge of Determining qx at Extreme Ages, Part 2 - Coping with Longevity: The New German Annuity Valuation Table DAV 2004 R.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: At this 1992 panel discussion, the panelists, including Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, discuss health care and comment on some of the health care proposals that are currently on the table, including the Administration's plan for overhauling the health care system. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This session discusses the Academy's efforts to address health reform, the latest HIAA activities in the health care debate, and industry implications for proposed legislation. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.