Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss currently available data standards, forecasts about the future uses of data standards, and standards being adopted by Information Technology departments.

Description: In the absence of a generally accepted guide to actuarial principles and practices for pension plans, a new professional firm offering actuarial consulting services has both the freedom to establish and the burden of establishing the professional policies by which it will be guided. Our thinking about the practical and professional necessity of annual valuations is reflected in this paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 69 AB.

Description: Presentation at June 1980 SOA meeting. Discussed the responsibility of the actuary on self-funded group insurance plans and how this might differ for consultants as opposed to insurer staff, and provides specific case studies.

Description: This panel discussion session reported on the status and content of the Actuarial Standards Board standard dealing with the selection of assumptions. The discussion covers what the effects would be on practitioners.

Description: From the Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings January 1986 Discussion of the development of the valuation actuary concept, various aspects of current regulation, and major features of the valuation actuary concept. Also discussion of the nature of professional liability and the specific legal liability of the valuation actuary. Finally an overview of some methods of limiting that liability.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium introduces the Basic Issues and Principles Health Practice Note and provides some background information including cash flow testing, Section 7 opinions and an update on solvency issues.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the draft of the group LTD practice notes, the disabled lives reserve DLR, the IBNR liability, the testing of a company performed at year-end 1992 to determine reserve adequacy and an overview of of the individual disability income IDI practice notes.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium explores issues associated with Life and Annuity Valuation including the status of Guideline XXX and practical compliance issues.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. In this session, the discussion looks at recent practice areas where actuaries have been involved in litigation. A review for lessons learned is undertaken and measures are examined which may be taken as protection from or to better deal with litigious situations.

Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium A review of the process involved in making an actuarial opinion and in developing the related actuarial report to management. This was accomplished through a case study approach, specifically covering a universal life product.