Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Topics to be discussed include possible standards of practice relating to demutualizations and to changes to nonforeiture laws.

Description: Candidates working toward their Fellowship of the Society of Actuaries [FSA] designation are required to complete an individualized plan of professional development. Panelists discuss these plans and how they are completed. They also discuss how an FSA becomes an advisor. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 45PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Panelists discuss the results of a survey of 59 responding companies about their student programs, how their own student programs are evolving with the changing actuarial-exam structure [with the Flexible Education System, FES, and the Future Education Methods, FEM], and how student programs might continue to change as the needs for actuaries evolve. Many questions and comments from the audience. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: A list of workshops and sessions with no written record. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion reports the progress the International Forum of Actuarial Associations made during its year and a discussion of plans for the coming year.

Description: Table of Contents for the sessions of the 1988 Annual Society of Actuaries Meeting, held October 23–26 in Boston, that are printed in the Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 Discussion of expert witness testimony, the process involved in preparing expert witness reports, and the pitfalls.Also discussion of the differences between the role of expert witness versus a consultant to a lawyer. The proposed Actuarial Standard of Practice on expert witness work is also incorporated. Learn from two skilled professionals about the reason for expert witness testimony, the process involved in preparing expert witness reports, and the joys and pitfalls encountered.

Description: A list of workshops and sessions with no written record. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Using case studies, representatives of various actuarial boards and committees discuss examples of how an actuary can run afoul of actuarial standards and what happens when he or she does.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session covered the goals of peer review programs, types of peer view, and practical issues such as the level of detail in peer review, what to peer review, types of documentation, and legal issues.