Description: Record of the Society of Actuaries: 1981 Vol.7 No. 1 This is a panel discussion session examining life insurance company organization and the emerging managerial environment, strategies and organization.

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: This 1981 session focused on Life and Casualty Company Organization for the 1980's. Topics included: 1. The Emerging Managerial Environment 2. Emerging Strategies - What new strategies are called for, and how will goals change with respect Co: a. Profit? b. Surplus levels? c. Growth? 3. Emerging Organization - How should companies organize for the future? From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 7, No. 3.

Description: Panelists provide background and updates on a number of statutory issues relating to life and annuity products, including statutory codification implementation, Actuarial Guideline MMMM, Actuarial Guideline AXXX and implications of the movement to the 2001 CSO table. Changes to federal reporting requirements, through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are briefly discussed relative to the recent accounting problems in the news. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 78OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Spring Meeting reviews surplus management strategies. Topics addressed include risk-based capital RBC, reinsurance, growth and profitability, cost of capital, and required surplus.

Description: The Society's Task Force to Study Risk of Loss from Changes in the Interest Rate Environment C-3 Risk Task Force was formed in March 1981 with the charge to quantify C-3 risk. The Task Force made a preliminary report as part of a panel discussion on C-3 risk at the Society's October 1981 meeting in Atlanta. This presentation provides an update on the progress to date and its future plans.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about raising capital for mutual companies. Subjects discussed: 1. Access to capital markets. 2. Use of surplus debentures. 3. Demutualization. 4. Securitization. 5. Sale/leaseback of home office. 6. Sales of blocks of business. 7. Rating agency perspectives.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the various ways a mutual company might attempt to access the capital markets and the various procedures and instruments that might be employed to acquired capital.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the joint Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Meeting held April 10-11, 1978 in New York City. In their discussion, the panelists define solvency and capacity, and consider how capacity can be measured, the qualitative aspects of solvency, the effects of inflation, availability of capital, and insurance risk vs. investment risk. Discussion from Participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 4, No. 1.