Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session debates the following resolution - resolved: the actuary should be required to express an opinion in life insurance company statements regarding the valuation adequacy of projected future cash flows.

Description: This session discussion is about the state of the art for the valuation actuary and the technical developments have occurred that will be useful to valuation actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: An article that reprints R. Stephen Radcliffe's, 1993-94 President, address at SOA Annual Meeting New York City on October 19, 1993. Outlined are the challenges facing the actuarial profession and his personal focus of the enhancement of the research and educational efforts of the SOA.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the speaker provided an overview of derivatives including: 1. Definition. 2. Uses. 3. Types of risks - market, credit, legal, and systems. 4. Risk management. 5. US regulatory guidelines and developments.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses reversion rates and mortality on non-reverted lives, mortality experience versus mortality tables, select and ultimate term insurance products and the developing experience for term insurance.

Description: The author discusses the need for actuaries to be prepared to succeed and thrive in a new environment where the competition comes from around the globe and from other professions. From: The Actuary, September 1999 – volume 33 - Issue 7.

Description: An article provides the Presidential Address given by R. Stephen Radcliffe, President, Society of Actuaries Address at Annual Meeting. The Society of Actuaries is emerging as a global player, a significant and challenging role.

Description: 1994 SOA meeting, Orlando. This session is entitled survivorship in finance. This was a free flowing discussion about finance and economics.

Description: Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. Discusses the reasons for substantial changes in life insurance pricing philosophy in recent years and their impact on actuaries and companies both now and in the future.

Description: An article announcing that the Casualty Actuarial Society CAS and the Society of Actuaries SOA agree to form a joint task force to achieve unity on actuarial principles. The task force guidelines and objectives are provided.