Description: Panel discussion about how the Investment Year Method is used with life insurance and annuity products to determine the credited rate, and how market entry has affected investment policy. From the 1979 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 5, No. 1.

Description: The presentations at this session at the 1990 SOA Annual Meeting offer thier view on the future of the life insurance industry in terms of demographics, economics, consolidation and products. The status of the actuarial profession in 10 years is contemplated.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses disintermediation and intermediation risk - C-3 Risk, investment strategy and product design including market value adjusted products. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session discussion is about the dilemma for mutual companies including the search for capital, M&A considerations, and the demutualization alternative. Topics included: 1 Large mutual companies and their issues. 2. Small mutual companies and their issues. 3. The regulatory, legal, and tax aspects.

Description: This session discussion is about the revisions to the standard nonforfeiture methodology as proposed by the Society of Actuaries' task force on nonforfeiture values. Items to be discussed include retrospective versus prospective methodology, no-cash-value whole life, rate regulation issues, and market value adjustments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about New York state compensation issues: Agent owned captives, Persistency bonuses, Asset based compensation, Regulation 49 issues, Section 4228 issues. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about a corporate environment with a stated return on equity objective: How does this objective interface with GAAP, statutory profit per unit issued, break-even year, premium or revenue growth, market share and cash flow.

Description: Members of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Committee on Non-Forfeiture Values discuss how their committee meetings usually go. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: Presentation of asset liability management techniques to better manage interest rate risk by matching the anticipated cash flows from assets with that of the companies liabilities. Some alternative perspectives/techniques from Canadian insurers are discussed. Article discusses the varying asset/liability management issues pertinent to life insurance companies and defined benefit plan sponsors

Description: This session is about the philosophy and implications of investment income allocation for individual and group products, bases available for subdivision of investment income by line and within lines of business, applicability of new money rates to individual and group products, and regulatory restraints.