Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues of the AIDS/HIV epidemic including the extra mortality, reserving options, a proposed actuarial standard of practice, and also covers the Canadian perspective.

Description: New International Financial Reporting Standards promise to trigger fundamental changes in the role and significance of actuarial models for insurers.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the Transitional Solvency Provision in Canada in preparation for the adoption of GAAP and the actuary's role in determining TSP.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the topic of current and anticipated future developments of solvency standards in Canada.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The first speaker discussed the complete solvency testing process and the route by which the valuation actuary arrives at conclusions and prepares a solvency report. The second speaker discussed certain general objectives and requirements of the valuation actuary's report and then indicated how a hypothetical company's sample report was drafted with these points in mind.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is the Canadian session on a report of the status of the Solvency Committee Report.

Description: Recent and pending changes in financial reporting standards and regulations such as IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements are ramping up the performance pressures on actuarial models. New infrastructure technology in the cloud is driving modeling options that may well help actuaries successfully and economically meet these challenges and unlock even greater transformational change.