Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers the changes that are being made to traditional dividend distribution techniques - specifically new money and variable interest rates on policy loans, how unusual changes in dividend experience are reflected in surplus distribution and update programs. From Record of Society Of Actuaries Vol. 9. No. 3

Description: Panelists provide regulatory updates about risk classification [including AIDS application issues], valuation and nonforfeiture, and cost disclosure. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses portfolio management, monitoring experience and current new product trends in individual term insurance. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4A

Description: The following topics were discussed at concurrent sessions: 1. Pension benefit security bill, 2. Variable insurance products, 3. Trends in hospital and medical care utilization, 4. Insurance distribution and marketing systems, 5. Deferred and incentive compensation, 6. Annual Statement accounting, 7. Social Security and employee benefits in western Europe, 8. Individual medical expense insurance, 9. Reserves and related problems for variable annuities and cost-of-living benefits, 10. Topics for consulting actuaries, 11. Profit and other objectives in group operations, and 12. Life insurance operations overseas- problems and opportunities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1969 Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 61.

Description: This session discussion is about the insurance industry is unique in the form of the financial instrument offered to consumers. Products earn long-term interest rates yet generally guarantee cash out without loss of principal. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: The session, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, covered topics related to Individual Life Insurance. The discussions presented were: variable life insurance, Section 79 products, policy loan interest rates, and term insurance. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting presents viewpoints from actuaries, marketers and regulators on proposed regulation of policy illustration and nonforfeiture requirements. The forum examines the proposed Actuarial Standards Board ASB Standard for Sales Illustrations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on dividends and non-guaranteed elements in individual life insurance and annuities.

Description: This session discussion is about the revisions to the standard nonforfeiture methodology as proposed by the Society of Actuaries' task force on nonforfeiture values. Items to be discussed include retrospective versus prospective methodology, no-cash-value whole life, rate regulation issues, and market value adjustments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses the latest Exposure Draft of the Committee on Theory of Dividends and other Non-Guaranteed Elements in Life Insurance and Annuities and of other related developments in this area.