Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session will examine how insurers monitor product pricing issues through traditional financial reporting information and will also present other management information systems developed to more effectively monitor profitability.

Description: This article discusses the need for more coordination and consistency in assumption setting between the pricing actuary, illustration actuary, appointed actuary, and financial reporting actuary.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. Noting that “within the life insurance industry there is increasing skepticism as to whether illustrations of projected policy values will be met,” the panelists discuss the Illustration Problem. They consider whether the problem is real, and whether current disclosure standards are inadequate. Other topics include whether it is possible to design an understandable method which cannot be manipulated, what responsibilities actuaries have in developing adequate standards, and regulatory activities. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting discusses the factors to review in re-pricing life products, insurers' methods for monitoring in-force business, and the importance of re-pricing in-force business. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about banks selling insurance around the world. Topics included: 1. Insurance sold through banks in the United States. 2. The bank assurance players in Australia and Southeast Asia, their business strategies, the market shares that they've obtained, the types of products they sell, and their distribution methods.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this session the panelists led the audience through case studies that required the development of various difficult assumptions where experience is limited. The panel discussed the key issues and how they would go about developing each assumption.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses the developments with regard to reinsurance response to New York Regulation 147 and Guideline XXX. It covers the kinds of terms products sold today and the impact of Guideline XXX on those, a 10 year term product and the options of reinsurance that are available. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.