Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Panelists discuss strategies for increased modeling speed as risk management, valuation and product development activities have been requiring increasingly complex financial models.

Description: This session is about e-business and its application to group insurance. Topics include applications to benefit & human resource portals. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 5

Description: Can we improve upon traditional methods of risk measurement and risk selection? Panelists discuss potential applications of predictive modeling, including individual underwriting, group rating and provider reimbursement. They focus on ways in which predictive modeling can be used to improve risk selection, experience rating and provider reimbursement. A session at the Health/Pension Spring Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana June 15-17, 2005. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: Panel discusses data mining as the analysis of large databases to identify possible relationships, trends, and other useful information. Much of the session is devoted to Online Analytical Processing [OLAP] and derivative products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session discusses defined-contribution plans as a method for employers to manage costs. Panelists discuss product designs and strategies as well as the impact on the health insurance market and third party administration business. Included is a discussion on e-health insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 59

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. The panel examines how insurers and other financial institutions are using the internet and future possibilities are explored.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This panel shows how underwriters can use technology to obtain low-cost/high-value underwriting information and dramatically improve productivity. New screening tests and modification of standards for international markets are also discussed.