Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses managing risks via product design and investment strategy, and overview of the market and the risks.

Description: This panel discussion session looked at recent and proposed regulation of life insurance underwriting. Specific topics included: i. Problems with traditional underwriting classifications: privacy, disclosure, anti-discrimination, etc. 2. New and acceptable classifications: smoking, lifestyle, build, blood pressure, finances, etc. 3. Possible transition problems: existing policies, persistency, coordination of previous data with newer classes, etc.

Description: Digest of a panel discussion looking at problems arising in issuing limited amounts of life insurance without a war clause to active members of the Armed Forces, types of death losses the Actuary considers as war deaths not suited for in existing premium rates and problems created by the war from the standpoint of protective provisions in disability and accidental death clauses.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the status of the second phase of the AAA C-3 Risk project. This project is leading to an updated NAIC filing requirement and is a step toward fair value. The specific focus is on equity risk and bond funds in the distribution tails. Products covered include variable life and annuities.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panel examines differences in risk assessment and underwriting that may be involved with doing business in a foreign country.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. The panel identifies the risks in various life products and the product development actions that can enable an insurer to manage the risks.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the nature of the risks associated with equity-based and equity-linked products, and how those products can be managed with the use of capital market instruments.

Description: This is a discussion of miscellaneous topics. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 12 Pt. 2 Includes discussion of automation opportunities, persistency studies, and stop-loss and catastrophe reinsurance

Description: This discussion focuses in particular on changes in assessment of build and blood pressure risk and war risk.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session provides an overview of the various methods used to manage the risks from guarantees of equity-based life and annuity products. Discussion includes the use of reinsurance, self-insurance and static/dynamic hedging.