Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting offers an overview of stochastic pricing including stochastic variables, equity market models, interest rate models and policyholder behavior. An example is given using a variable annuity product.

Description: This session 15 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting includes an update on specific approaches adopted by Canadian insurers and regulators to deal with capital guarantees on segregated fund products, capital modeling in the Canadian banking industry, and emerging issues using these techniques in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session