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: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on repricing the in-force book of business addressed ASB requirements, data gathering, assumption setting, modeling considerations, coordination with financial areas, par versus interest-sensitive products, and communicating results to management.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting discusses the evolution of techniques in product development for life insurance with a focus on macropricing. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on the connection between the pricing function and financial reporting, communicating financial information to senior management and asset/liability management.

Description: This is a discussion from the 1982 SOA Spring Meeting on individual annuity product design under conditions of inflation. It highlights the design and testing of annuity products in an inflationary envirnonmnet, the marketing and distribution of annuities, the importance of asset/liability matching and surplus and valuation considerations. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1982, Volume 8, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting discusses the Norris case, the Fair Insurance Practices Act and HR100, known as the Non-Discrimination in Insurance Act and the implications of these current developments regarding risk classification in the insurance industry and pension plans. From Record of the Society Vol. 9, No. 4

Description: This presentation establishes a bang-bang solution for the optimal withdrawal strategies.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.

Description: This discussion on annuities and settlement options focuses on: A. Revisions made recently in the interest and mortality bases for annuity contracts and retirement income policies and for settlement options embodied in life insurance policies. B. The extent to which the use of settlement options might be justified for payees other than the insured and beneficiaries who are natural persons. C. The practical problems arising in connection with: 1 Requests for elaborate or complicated settlements 2 Liberal settlement option guarantees in outstanding policies

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about considerations in choosing interest assumptions and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.