Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This teaching session covers course F-585 in the exam materials, which is intended to provide background for the actuary who aspires to become the chief financial officer of a financial institution. It addresses raising capital and financial management.

Description: Presenter discusses some techniques for minimizing and controlling the damage to defined-benefit pension surpluses caused by market forces. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Description: Baseline and what-if/stressed projections of cash flows, financial statements and capital requirements are critical inputs to a range of business purposes, including forecasts, risk management, liquidity management, strategic decision making, etc. Forward looking projections have historically been inefficient and performed in silos making it difficult to scale the process as CFOs and CROs ask for more. In this session we discuss challenges of the forecast process and opportunities to meet desired future capabilities. We will also discuss “what-if” analysis and ways to support production of forward looking projections for “what-if” analysis in an efficient way.

Description: Recently there have been several studies on the dividend payments prior to ruin in various risk models. By employing some new obtained results in the actuarial literature, this presentation analyzes the distribution of the total dividend payments in a risk model with multi-threshold dividend strategy, where the claim arrivals are modeled by a Markovian arrival process [MAP]. A piecewise integro-differential equation in matrix form is derived and solved analytically for the moments of present value of the total dividends prior to ruin. The presentation also discusses the differences between its method and other existing ones. An example with exponentially distributed claim amounts is illustrated numerically.

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.

Description: From the Record 1977 Vol. 3, No. 1, this presentation is from a concurrent session at the Society of Actuaries 1977 Regional Meeting, held in Atlanta March 31-April 1. The presenters at this session discuss the sources of funds for stock life insurance companies, including debt, capital, policyholders, and coinsurance, and the prioritization of the use of funds. “Enterprise risk exposure and management” and policyholder vs. shareholder dividend philosophy are additional topics.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed the differences in the reporting of product line and source of earnings results between insurers and banks and the practical problems which exist in interpreting gain by source or product-level.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. Financial management issues faced by actuaries in multinational corporations are discussed, including: GAAP and Statutory accounting, taxes, reinsurance.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: What measures should be used in setting objectives and evaluating performance for companies and product lines, What variations are appropriate for stock and mutual companies and for United States and Canadian companies.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Overview of current activities, Evaluating accounting alternatives, Accounting for participating business, Differences in management reporting and GAAP reporting.