Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. An investment manager discusses investment strategy for a disability insurer and a rating agency representative and a stock analyst describe how disability insurers are evaluated for risk profile and other issues.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session discusses financial, strategic, and regulatory issues that arise from the combination of life insurance businesses through merger, acquisition, or reinsurance, with a special focus on the needs of mutual companies.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses basic considerations and the process of an international acquisition or merger.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel discusses a prevailing economic scenario, financing economic growth, investment strategies, and risk management.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: This is a discussion of the future of the life insurance business in the USA. Specifically, it discusses corporate structure, marketing strategies, distribution approaches, product design, mergers and acquisitions, federal income taxation and reinsurance.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Demutualization process overview, Considerations, Current developments - Society of Actuaries committee New York legislation, Accounting for the demutualized company, How investment analysts will view the demutualized company.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion examines the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model law regarding the use of assumption reinsurance.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session presents analysts' views on major insurance multinationals, discussing the way investment analysts look at large companies in determining their buy/sell recommendations.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion focuses on forces driving consolidation and the advantages that small companies have to counter those forces.