Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers the deregulation that has already occurred within financial industries including banking regulations regarding underwriting and selling insurance and some insight into possible future deregulation.

Description: This article lists and describes the year 2000 scenario developed from the Delphi survey of Futurism Section members. From The Actuary Vol. 24, No. 2

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers various measures of profitability by line of business, analysis of earnings and techniques to measure the surplus needed to support a line or product. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

Description: This paper sets the task of pricing insurance products in the larger framework of company planning and management. A generalized description of the pricing function, applicable to any insurance company project.

Description: An Editorial which encourages taking planned, calculated risks for the long term success of the actuarial profession.

Description: In this “nontraditional” general session from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto, the panelists, a “judge,” a “defendant,” and a “prosecutor” present a humorous “trial” to explore what the boundaries of “traditional” actuarial work are. A theme of the session is that some of what we call “nontraditional” is an expansion of traditional actuarial work, and that we owe it to our public to broaden our horizons. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This article provides a recap of the 11th biennial session of the Pacific Insurance Conference held in Kauai, Hawaii on September 11-16, 1983. Its theme was Life Insurance and Diversification in the 1980’s.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussed actuaries in non-traditional roles and provided insight into how to pursue non-traditional opportunities.

Description: As an profession, our obligation ultimately is to the public. We are well known for our competence and integrity as actuaries. We should be equally proud of the widespread contributions of our actuarial family in making our world a better place to live. This article highlights some of those contributions paying particular attention to the Actuarial Foundation. From: The Actuary, February 2000, volume 34, issue 2.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on mergers and acquisitions of life insurance companies.