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: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Examines the view of life insurance companies and the life insurance industry from the perspective of a rating agency, and discusses recent trends and significant qualitative and quantitative elements of life insurance companies.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses the most reasonable profit measures and how they can be interpreted in various environments.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses: Target surplus formulas for specific product lines, Projecting product line surplus needs, How cost of capital is charged to product lines, Criteria to use in allocating capital to or withdrawing capital from specific product lines, Differing techniques appropriate for stock and mutual companies, Differing techniques appropriate for the United States and Canada, How capital allocation relates to regulatory requirements, How capital allocation relates to competition in other industries.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session discussion is about profit analysis and elements of profit such as: interest, mortality, lapse experience, expenses, reinsurance, taxes. It also about use of profit analysis as a business tool to drive management action.

Description: This is a summary of a presentation made at the 1975 SOA annual meeting regarding statutory reserves, contingency reserves and life insurance company surplus.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session will examine how insurers monitor product pricing issues through traditional financial reporting information and will also present other management information systems developed to more effectively monitor profitability.