Description: This panel discussion from the SOA 1976 Houston Spring Meeting focuses on practical considerations in providing services under insured pension plans. The information is organized into home office considerations, field considerations, and external factors such as Enrolled Actuary certifications and outside vendors of pension services. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol.2, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about economic value of mutual companies, realization of economic value. policyholders' rights to value and implications for the management of mutuals. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the role of the investment operation in the product development process, the process of managing an in-force block of business, and how the differences in Statutory and GAAP accounting affect the pricing process.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses individual life insurance including the changing markets, distribution systems, products, regulation, and taxes.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed traditional and modern approaches to actuarial pricing assumptions in a volatile environment.

Description: Fairly thorough discussion about group universal life, from history through legal and actuarial issues and market outlook. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 1.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about incentive compensation in the life insurance industry including the need for such plans, plan design issues and performance measures.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists discuss product design issues for annuities, including “CD annuities,” which are like individual guaranteed investment contracts, traditional single premium deferred annuities, ‘SPDAs,’ two-tiered annuities, immediate annuities, and others. They also discuss tax developments, investment strategies, and reserve issues. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the obligations and requirements with respect to cash flow testing for yearend 1991, at that time contained in Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 14. Topics include difficulties in the cash-flow testing process, such as asset and liability construction and assumptions, and strategy. Other topics are interpretation of results, how to cost-justify cash-flow testing, Canadian cash-flow techniques and issues, and asset liquidation versus borrowing. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.