Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Discusses demographic and economic change, changes in the market, and the direction of the legislative and legal environment for medical and long term care insurance.

Description: Presented at October 2000 Annual Meeting. Discusses prescription cost trends, factors behind the trends, and cost management strategies for both the commercial and Medicare markets.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Panelists identify the risks and risk-mitigating actions that an insurer can take. Approaches discussed include reinsurance, investment programs and offsetting risks in one product against those in others.

Description: Conceptual discussion of the financial crisis in our life insurance distribution systems including the cost of developing an agent, the retention of the agent and production/productivity of the agent and agent compensation issues

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Discusses 'state of the art' of international mergers and acquisitions in Asia, Latin America and other fast-growing regions.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: How investment policy should be developed, Role of the actuary and the investment officer, Role of the pricing actuary and the valuation actuary, Liquidity considerations, Tax considerations, Capital loss constraints, Process for changing strategy as the economy and company circumstances change.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents case studies on the use of technology to solve some of the problems commonly encountered by actuaries in smaller companies.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Relationship of pricing and valuation actuaries in Canada, Financial reporting system as an information source for product development, Interaction of the pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development of expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information in changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, Reserve basis and nonforfeiture basis impact on product development, with special reference to lapse-sensitive products.