Description: This session is about meeting the needs for financial information in managing an insurance company. Topics include: 1. What are management's basic needs how are they met can financial systems continue to meet the challenge? 2. Are fundamental changes ahead for GAAP reporting? 3. Is it time for mutual companies to provide more meaningful financial information? 4. Can current regulatory reporting meet the needs of the 21st century? 5. Can separate statutory and GAAP systems continue to coexist? 6. Will the United States regulatory environment reduce our global competitiveness? 7. Variance analysis - Why your predictions were wrong - Which variances are acts of God? - Which variances should be blamed on somebody? - How to deal with interest rate fluctuations 8. Market valuation, why? - What questions are being addressed with market valuation

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about the state-of-the-art in packaged software, the requirements of such systems, and current and future health care developments that must be addressed.

Description: Panel session on the challenge that many insurers face as they try to grow their long-term-care insurance business, while simultaneously ensuring analysts and shareholders that earnings targets will be met.

Description: Presented at October 2001 Annual Meeting. Panelists provide insight into the factors driving the cost increase of prescription drugs and how these factors are being addressed. Strategies include drug utilization review, manufacturer contracting, benefit design, formularies, pharmaceutical pricing, therapeutic substitution, physical education, and introduction of new pharmaceuticals. Also discussed are pharmacoeconomic benefit considerations when studying integrated medical and pharmacy expenses.

Description: Noted author and speaker talks about risk and the nature of risk, drawing from his extensive knowledge and experience in economics and finance. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 1GS of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Discusses cost-benefit decision-making for acquiring electronic data-processing equipment and installation issues, ability of small companies to compete in pension trust arena, effectiveness of various agency compensation programs in stimulating sales and improving persistency, success of sales to substandard risks and rating methods, and pricing, reinsurance and experience with individual hospital and medical policies.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about trends in utilization review 'UR', preadmission certification, concurrent review, discharge planning, retrospective review, considerations in the design or purchase of UR services, normative data and monitoring UR, recent experience of UR programs and future expectations.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: What measures should be used in setting objectives and evaluating performance for companies and product lines, What variations are appropriate for stock and mutual companies and for United States and Canadian companies.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Attendees learn about tools used to manage enterprise risk and optimize firm value. Potential topics include economic surplus, earnings at risk, and law of one price. Attendees learn how various risk-management tools can complement each other.

Description: This discussion examines the relationship of Operations Research to the actuarial profession, the extent traditional actuarial work can be regarded as Operations Research, types of life insurance company problems lending themselves to Operations Research study, and the relationship of electronic data processing field to Operations Research.