Description: Describes some of the challenges to be overcome in United States regulation of systemic risk. Argues that actuarial contributions can significantly accelerate progress in systemic risk regulation.

Description: This session is about the national health & pension reform and the different agencies involved in the process. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 20, No. 3A.

Description: Argues that during boom times, it is virtually impossible to get regulators to oppose politicians who are being lobbied by financial services organizations, thus a bubble expands and a bust is inevitable.

Description: Suggests Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation doesn’t go far enough to reduce systemic risk. Paper provides suggestions that would improve outcomes if built into the regulations.

Description: Analyzes whether or not it is a legitimate function of government to regulate financial institutions.

Description: Argues that the suppression or mitigation of small and intermediate economic collapses means that much bigger collapses will occur instead.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 This session addressed aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including a discussion of the history and purpose of the act, processes of compliance and their documentation, identification of key controls and testing for key control effectiveness.

Description: Update on the potential impact of national health law legislation, and discussion of the influence of inflation on both the relation between actual and expected claims, and the design of new benefits and administrative procedures. This presentation was made at the 1975 SOA Los Angeles Spring Meeting.

Description: A discussion of what to do in the face of unprecedented change. With so many negative indicators of the economic future, suggestions are made for individual actions.

Description: A regulator's perspective on the changing insurance and financial services industry, including changes in the state regulatory environment driven by the regulators themselves, as well as potential changes in the competitive environment prompted by the Financial Services Modernization Act.