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: Discusses the pricing issues that, if handled successfully, pave the way for a solid statement of actuarial opinion: coordinating pricing and valuation roles, communicating product specifications, setting mutually acceptable assumptions, reflecting risk in pricing and valuation, coordinating investment policy and interest-crediting policy, and anticipating a volatile economic environment. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

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: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses whether actuaries working for plan sponsors are better than outside consultants, the professional responsibility that an in-house actuary must have, how the plan sponsor actuary provides analyses, and how the role of the plan sponsor member is evolving.

Description: Table of contents for Volume 1, Issue No. 2 of The Record of the Society of Actuaries. These records were taken from the New York meeting, April 17-18, 1975.