Description: Panelists discussed, from the perspective of various countries, the current systems of peer review of an actuary's work relating to financial statements.

Description: The Employee Retiree Income Security Act, or ERISA, establishes an important statutory role for pension actuaries in the United States. As part of its statutory goal to protect the retirement security of America’s workers, ERISA requires tax-qualified defined benefit plans to obtain an actuarial valuation of plan reserves each year. When valuing the plan’s reserves, the actuary is required by ERISA to act on behalf of plan participants. Thus, the plan actuary fulfills an important role in maintaining the plan’s ability to meet its on-going obligations to the plan participants and their beneficiaries. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about practice notes. The panelists debated the value of them and then discussed being aware of our legal liability.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Using case studies, representatives of various actuarial boards and committees discuss examples of how an actuary can run afoul of actuarial standards and what happens when he or she does.

Description: This presentation, session number 85PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. The panelists review existing and pending Actuarial Standards of Practice as they relate to life insurance financial reporting in the United States. Other topics include the nature of reliance on ASOPs by statutory authorities, and the composition and processes of the Actuarial Standards Board, the body that establishes the ASOPs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: Presented at 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Presents updates from the NAIC and its Life & Health Actuarial Task Force, and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session is about professional standards and the appointed actuary.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session presented the results of a survey of the U.S. actuarial profession conducted by the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the American Academy of Actuaries. This survey asked questions relating to the individual actuary's awareness of and familiarly with the Code of Professional Conduct, Actuarial Standards of Practice, and qualification standards, as well as understanding of the activities of the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Article offers ideas on how actuaries in small firms can address theri litigation risk in rational, cost-effective ways.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews the codes of professional conduct and standards of practice and the professional obligations when practicing in various other countries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.