Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session provides varying perspectives on corporate approaches to the macro management of risk. In this paper, areas such as risk identification, asset/liability management structure, and secular trend analysis will be discussed.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session discusses financial management in the year 2001, which displayed an economic environment unlike that of any year since the 1960s.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists identify the risks and risk-mitigating actions that an insurer can take. Approaches discussed include reinsurance, investment programs and offsetting risks in one product against those in others.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session considers the issue of an amalgamation through a case study, addressing: performance results, personnel and organizational issues, corporate culture.