Description: From session 43TS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Presenters discuss the growing pressure, due to the globalization of commerce and industry, for a uniform set of worldwide accounting standards, and the form that these standard are likely to take.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about changes to the regulations for statutory reporting. Some of the issues covered are new reserve laws, regulations for term insurance reserves, update rules for asset valuation reserve, interest maintenance reserve, and risk-based capital RBC.

Description: At this session 4PD of the SOA Annual Meeting in New York the panel discusses issues stemming from an AAA study of valuation and insurance in 14 countries on 5 continents, and what the U.S. could learn from these findings. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion was on new actuarial standards for in Canada. Topics covered included: 1. The flexibility afforded the Canadian Valuation Actuary under the new Insurance Acts. 2. A comparison to the current GAAP and statutory reporting requirements in the U.S. and to the reporting requirements in the United Kingdom.

Description: Panelists for this session 40OF of the Montreal Spring Meeting discuss some of the situations in which U.S. GAAP accounting for life insurance companies has international implications.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the American Academy of Actuaries research on valuation and insurance in 14 countries in light of the movement of the NAIC toward a new valuation law.

Description: Panel for session 46SM/L of the New York Annual Meeting presents an update on the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Accounting Standards Board activities. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about asset segmentation, i.e. segmenting assets among lines of business or liabilities, practical issues involved in the process, and how this enhances asset/liability mangement.

Description: This session at the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting is a debate on the pros and cons of three alternative reporting methods -Embedded [Economic] Value, Fair Value and U.S. GAAP - as measures of shareholder-value creation and as pricing tools. Each speaker describes his preferred method, emphasizing the uses and advantages of the method, and critiques the other methods.

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 31 discusses mergers and acquisitions.