Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: Futures, Options, Floating rate securities, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Leased equipment, Joint ventures, Stripped securities, Zero coupon bonds, Mortgage pools, Sales - leasebacks.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Financial management issues faced by actuaries in multinational corporations are discussed, including: GAAP and Statutory accounting, taxes, reinsurance.

Description: Panelists discuss financial reporting issues confronting companies doing business in an multinational environment. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Guidelines for the Reporting of Self-Administered Reinsurance, What are the proposed guidelines, Why are they necessary, How will ceding companies be affected, What is the impact of recent auditing and U.S. Tax law developments.

Description: Presented at October 19895 Annual Meeting. This session is about statutory, GAAP and management reporting for new life insurance and annuity products and nontraditional distribution systems.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. The investment environment has undergone significant change over the last several years through the introduction of many sophisticated investment vehicles. This session provides an update on current challenges encountered by life insurance companies in accounting for this new array of investments. Among the issues covered will be accounting for derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, and other hedging vehicles. The session also includes some of the system and projection modeling challenges encountered as a by-product of investment in these vehicles.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses changes to reserving and tax regulations and the implications they have on product development.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Capital gains and losses accounting, Internal sales of investments among portfolios, Equity investment accounting, Internal stripping of securities, Internally manufactured puts and calls, Allocation of taxes and investment expenses among portfolios, Accounting systems needed.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Discusses the status and future impact of new and emerging issues in financial reporting and taxation.

Description: Presented at the March 1975 Spring Meeting. Discusses whether traditional valuation principles can provide as much financial security in the future as in the past, including GAAP, impact of changing asset values on cash flow, and regulatory developments.