Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. In this session the panelists discussed the new standard valuation law. Areas covered included: 1. Risk of legal liability? 2. Vagueness of actuarial standards? 3. Reliance on other company experts? 4. Consultants versus company actuary perspectives? 5. The science versus the art of the process?

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion was about cash-flow testing as a management tool. The focus was on lessons learned from 1992 CFT and the expectation of lessons that can be learned in the future. Speakers addressed management use of CFT, CFT in risk management, CFT in profit enhancement, and the applicability to assets and liabilities.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting is a teaching session on futures and options, the applications for them, the roles as a strategy tool and hedging risks. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion is about personal casualty lines on a group basis. It focused on: 1. The traditional approaches of group life and health versus individual policies for fire and casualty 2. Problems in product design and underwriting, and 3. The impact of federal income tax laws. 4. Regulatory constraints. The discussions were primarily on personal automobile insurance.

Description: This 1978 session focused on regulatory considerations in Group Health Insurance focused on the following questions: 1. What is the impact of National Health Insurance and Federal Hospital Cost Control? 2. What is the impact of non-discrimination legislation and regulation? 3. What is the impact of recent OASDI financing changes and changes in mandatory retirement age? 4. What is the future of multi-employer trusts and self-insurance?

Description: This 1978 session focused on Individual Life Products in the Employee Market. Topics included: 1. What is the current status of the Section 79 market. 2. The Retired Life Reserve concept. 3. Trends in Deferred Compensation products. 4. Recent activity in the Key Person and Split Dollar markets.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addressed the new risk-based capital requirement. Topics included: 1. How reasonable is the framework of basing the formulas on simplistic application of the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 risks? 2. Will this be effective in stanching the proliferation of RBC formulas by the regulatory bodies? 3. Which lines of business are treated relatively badly by the formulas? 4. Is there realistically anything that can be done to prevent company comparisons and renkings? 5. What are the administrative problems faced by the regulators in the oversight process requirement that this will create?

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussion is about cash-flow testing as a management tool. Topics covered included: 1. Was the year-end process useful or a necessary evil? 2. How realistic were the assumptions used? 3. How much was pure guesswork? 4. What were the lessons learned from the exercise?

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

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.