Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about redetermination of 'Non-Guaranteed Pricing Elements Recommendations', actuarial responsibilities to the various publics relative to nonguaranteed pricing functions and brief status report on Interim Actuarial Standards Board 'IASB' including how this Committee's Exposure Draft affects the IASB.

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 1978 session focused on individual insurance pricing theory which covered the pricing process: 1. definition of goals and marketing plan 2. establishment of actuarial assumptions 3. determination of prices 4. management of results

Description: The management of the investments of an insurance enterprise has undergone a considerable evolution since the pioneering work of Redington in the mid 20th century. Best practices have evolved to incorporate ever more complex insurance liabilities, expanding investment asset classes and global market opportunities. Strategic asset allocation (SAA), liability driven investing, and other robust optimization approaches form the core of the professional management of insurance company investments.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses the differences in modeling separate account products vs. general account products.

Description: From a panel discussion session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists discuss two of the measurements actuaries are using to evaluate direct response products: customer lifetime value and embedded values.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. The panel discussed current issues in participating, UL, and non-guaranteed element products. Topics of discussion included product design, regulatory issues, implementation, pricing issues, and compensation.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses new business developments which have led to a resurgence in term life sales and profitability.

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: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about techniques companies are using to maintain compatibility between investment practices and pricing assumptions for interest-sensitive products: Segregated assets, Use of options/futures, Asset/liability matching, Market value adjustments.