Description: Table of contents for the Annual Meeting October 1985.

Description: Table of contents for the Spring Meeting in May 1986.

Description: A presentation of various views on establishing principles and practices for pension plan construction and valuation, in light of the passage of the Pension Reform Act. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed techniques for preparing for actuarial exams.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Addresses whether actuaries working for plan sponsors are better than outside consultants, the professional responsibility that an in-house actuary must have, how the plan sponsor actuary provides analyses, and how the role of the plan sponsor member is evolving.

Description: Discussion of LTC insurance product developments being spurred by recent demographic and regulatory trends, especially combination products such as LTC benefits with disability income, annuities, and life insurance. Several viable product styles are considered, along with the pros and cons of each.

Description: This presentation is a teaching session, number 69TS, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. In 2003, the SOA's Board of Governors approved a redesign of the education and examination system. The instructors present a review of the proposal, discuss the considerable progress that has been made to date with regard to implementation, and discuss the implications for actuarial education and training programs. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that continuing education can be much more efficiently accomplished if it is planned, the speakers discuss the development of their own continuing education plans, in the broader sense of career and professional development. Another topic of discussion is the Society of Actuaries’ ‘Professional Actuarial Specialty Guides’ and the committee that has done a tremendous amount of work in putting them together. Participants are asked to review their career development plans using a self-scoring test instrument. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: Panelists discuss issues important to actuaries acting as expert witnesses in legal proceedings, as well as guidelines for the actual presentation of testimony, focusing primarily in the area of pension plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. A noted expert with a degree from the graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake discusses long-term forecasting and planning, the future of information technology and technology transfer, strategic planning and the development of future scenarios.