Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. In this open forum participants' questions were addressed by experts in the field. Some of the questions: 1. How does actuarial practice develop with regard to questions about interim results and asset-adequacy analysis projections? 2. If the present value measures used in typical asset-adequacy evaluation include a favorable adequacy opinion, are there patterns of interim results that under commonly accepted actuarial practice would require additional reserves to be established? 3. What is the most extreme stochastic modeling that you have seen? How many scenarios on how large a block, on how complex a model, on how many PCs or what type of computer that ran for over how many days? 4. Is codification retroactive? Does it impact any previous reserving methodologies put in place on policies issued before codification was effective? 5. What are your individual views on whether the federal government should provide a backstop to group or individual life insurance to handle terrorism catastrophes? 6. What are your thoughts are on the move toward stochastic methods for setting reserves?

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This is a panel discussion on managing the adequacy of capital by setting capital targets and ensuring targets are met. External capital, performance measurement, and management of inter-company relationships were part of the discussion.

Description: This session discussion is about the effect of solvency concerns on health insurers: NAIC proposed risk-based capital formulas, typical return on equity for health business, rating agency formulas and volatility measures for loss ratios. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1B.

Description: This 1979 session focused on the future of individual deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Regulatory and Tax Problems a. S.E.C. exemptive provisions b. Tax questions c. Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities 2. Prospects for Profitability a. Disintermediation b. Improving the prospects for profits 3. Portfolio Method of Crediting Interest vs. Investment Year Method 4. Marketing 5. Product Design a. Different product features b. Lapse experience c. Recent innovations

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discussion includes: case history of Inter-State Assurance Company, case history of Unionmutual Life, Society of Actuaries Task Force on Mutual Life Insurance Company Conversion, Demutualization legislation Proposed in New York.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the organizational and practical implications of segregating the General Account including how to allocate existing assets by product line, organizational changes required, regulatory implications and accounting and systems consideratons. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3