Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about trends in life company impairments and insolvencies. Topics included: 1. Recent insolvencies - are there similar situations waiting to be discovered? 2. How meaningful are current financial statements? 3. What do rating agencies say? How much confidence is there in their ratings? 4. The role of cash-flow testing, AVR/IMR, and risk-based capital formulas.

Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Discussion of financial restructuring trends and the impact of those trends on the insurance industry and challenges for those companies that have recently experienced some form of financial restructuring.

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Demutualization process overview, Considerations, Current developments - Society of Actuaries committee New York legislation, Accounting for the demutualized company, How investment analysts will view the demutualized company.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session addressed the asset valuation reserve, the interest maintenance reserve, the RBC requirements, and the impact on the company's investment strategies of these reserves.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers liquidity including the external view of liquidity, the internal view of liquidity and liquidity ratios and an actual liquidity stress situation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: In session 69PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the proposed/adopted versions of the new NAIC model investment law, and their potential financial and investment strategy impact on insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York City Meeting discusses identifying appropriate types of businesses for acquisition, identifying target companies, the process from identification to purchase agreements, financing an acquisition and demutualization. Record of Society of Actuaries 1984 Vol. 10 No. 3 Negotiating strategy Life insurance companies as corporate investments. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3 in New York

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discussion includes: case history of Inter-State Assurance Company, case history of Unionmutual Life, Society of Actuaries Task Force on Mutual Life Insurance Company Conversion, Demutualization legislation Proposed in New York.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A panel of actuarial regulators answered the questions: 1. What are the regulatory expectations from asset adequacy analysis? 2. When regulators review a company's opinion and memoranda, what are the things they are looking for? 3. What are the things that haven't been done as well as they like? 4. What do they feel can be improved on in the process? 5. How does the process itself work?

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Pros and cons of demutualizing, legal and regulatory perspective, current demutualization developments, actuarial considerations of how much, in what proportions, and to whom, structuring the demutualization, and implications of a public offering.