Description: Reunite with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, IFRS 17, product strategy, cross-border communication and discussion, and more. Advance your career through learning and networking opportunities, and share your experiences in the finance and insurance industries, as well as other fields related to actuarial science.

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Personal Security in the 1970's- United States and Canada, 2. Adjusted earnings for life companies, 3. Pension funding, 4. What about these younger actuaries?, 5. Sources of statistical information for actuaries, 6. Variable life insurance, 7. Models and decision techniques, and 8. Role of the actuary in expense control. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1970, Vol 22, Pt. 2, No. 63.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications on a variety of topics.

Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meetings in Atlanta and San Francisco. These discussions on pensions examined the advantages of funding deferred profit sharing plans through a life insurance company and the problems involved in final average retirement plans.

Description: This general discussion focused on: A. The increase on maximum limits on single premiums accepted based on investment conditions, B. Steps a smaller company might take to meet the current demand for pension plans, C. The extent to which companies have: 1. Transferred to their field or district offices functions which had previously been performed in the home office 2. Transferred to the home office or to central collection offices functions which had previously been performed in agency offices D. Steps taken to revise or supplement company retirement plan benefits to recognize higher salary scales and the possibility of still further inflation, E. The advantages and disadvantages of the Bank Loan Plan under which a policyholder purchases a limited payment life policy and borrows part of the premium from a bank, and F. Changes which have been made in War Exclusion Riders, Disability and Double Indemnity provisions.

Description: 1973 SOA Annual Meeting. This paper provided summaries of several concurrent sessions from the referenced meeting including: 1. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH PROGRAMS. 2. MARKETING INDIVIDUAL ORDINARY INSURANCE. 3. ACTUARIAL LITERATURE. 4. INDIVIDUAL DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE. 5. GROUP SURVIVOR INCOME BENEFITS. 6. GROUP LIFE AND HEALTH - EXTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS. 7. PENSION PLAN FINANCIAL REPORTING.

Description: This discussion seeks answers to the following pension trust questions: 1. What has been the mortality experience under insurance policies issued for Pension Trusts? 2. Is there a need for low-premium plans such as Ordinary Life under Pension Trusts? 3. How may Ordinary Life policies be successfully employed?

Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meeting in Atlanta. This discussion covered the advantages and disadvantages of entering the pension field through Ordinary policies or Group Annuities. The panel also discussed considerations in entering the Accident and Sickness field.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Society of Insurance Research (SIR) started developing research addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics. Join panelists as they briefly present an overview of their organization's DEI research and share their perspectives on common challenges facing all the stages of this research: - Planning relevant and timely research with a long timeline. - Getting appropriate data and resources to support your research. - Communicating research on topics that may be controversial.

Description: Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue No. 2 of The Record of the Society of Actuaries. These records were taken from the New York meeting, April 17-18, 1975.