Description: Panelists discuss prevailing business models adopted by valuation departments to meet business needs. Two case studies are discussed as a means of illustrating how to optimize business processes and models for valuation purposes.

Description: The panelists of this session 142PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discuss how they got into computer science and explain the various types of activities involved in their jobs as actuaries in computer science. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 142PD.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session addressed systems management and discussed these questions: 1. Why is it so difficult to forecast delivery times and resource requirements? 2. Should I build or buy? 3. What project management techniques have worked for you? 4. Why do systems development projects often go out of control? 5. What is the systems development life cycle? 6. Why does testing always prove inadequate?

Description: Panelists at this session of the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss recent developments in the area of fair-value financial reporting including recent FASB developments, international accounting standards, and different approaches to valuing liabilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about measuring investment results for different lines of business and different types of assets. Accounting issues related to investment results are also discussed.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses modeling techniques for both assets and liabilities. Considerations are given for which assumptions are needed and how to determine them.