Description: This far-ranging discussion of health insurance and employee pensions discussed expansion of health insurance plans to encompass the additional forms of medical care and treatment, intercompany studies of mortality and morbidity, accidental death coverage are written on a twenty-four-hour basis or as travel accident, dental care insurance, survivorship benefits, employer-sponsored death benefits incorporated into qualified pension plans, and other topics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol 15 Pt. 2

Description: Certain valuation assumptions are difficult to set with a high degree of accuracy, whether because the underlying experience is in different economic or interest rate environments, in addition to other reasons. Examples include assumptions for long-term care insurance, annuity options, lapsation and premium persistency on ULSG. This session will share how the actuary can use predictive analytics to augment the assumption-setting process. Some of the benefits to the actuary (along with the company and the regulator) include more accurate assumptions with lower margins for adverse deviations. Of possible interest as well is that applications go beyond valuation and include acquisitions, reinsurance and pricing.

Description: What are the possible future implications to insurance companies of significant improvements in mortality? How can futurism techniques be used in research? The formation of the mortality improvement study group at the Principal Financial Group was the first step toward examining the issue of mortality improvement. In an interactive format, we will present what we learned about mortality and futurism techniques by participating in this group.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session analyzes the factors that influence the mortality differences between countries and between population and insured-lives mortality.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses how credibility varies by size of groups for various health coverages, when a block of business can be considered fully credible, how credibility can factor into a rate filling, and to what extent current experience can be considered more credible than past experience.

Description: 2004 SOA Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York. This session covered the results of new experience studies for individual disability, group disability and group life, the implications of the results, and the future direction of the studies.

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: The key tasks of credit risk capital project under CROSS II mainly focus onL(1 )Adjustment of measurement framework; (2) Calibration of risk factors, including both credit spread risk and credit default risk;3)Introduction of concentration risk measurement; (4) Higher requirement on look-through rule.

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting presents an update for actuaries on U.S. Federal Statistics including GNP, economic accounts, measures of price change, the Federal Reserve, and the money supply. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.