Description: Discusses the severe adverse effects on U.S. capital markets that will occur due to the passage of FAS 115, which requires marking certain assets to market without a corresponding adjustment to liabilities.

Description: This articles describes how actuaries can contribute to the understanding of the financing of Medicare and the urgency of its problems.

Description: discussion of the naming of Patrick l. Brokett, Ph.D., director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of Texas at Austin as the third holder of the Thomas P. Bowles Jr. Chair of Actuarial Science.

Description: A discussion of the role and responsibilities of actuaries beyond crunching numbers

Description: This session discussion is about outside actuarial profession's perspective on health care cost, insurer's role in medical care management, relationships between treatment decisions, available coverage, appropriate use of underwriting and paying for uncompensated care. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. Accruals in nonqualified retirement plans have become subject to FICA taxation. In this session, IRS rules are discussed in detail with emphasis on options available for good faith years through 1996 and final regulation years starting in 1997.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session focused on the advantages and practical applications of offshore reinsurance. Topics included: · Types of reinsurance · Brief history of the development of the offshore market · Tax and regulatory advantages · Number of reinsurers and size of market · Risks that offshore reinsurance can best address · Financial reinsurance arrangements · Impact of Regulation XXX on demand and price · Regulatory considerations · Details of the use of letters of credit

Description: From a session at the annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2000 Panelists discuss the changes these companies were making, the experience so far as a public company, and how investors are viewing them.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. Discusses current financial reporting topics related to both group and individual health insurance, including: Standards of practice for health actuaries, Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 DEFRA, Qualifications for health certification, Internal management reporting needs, New state reporting requirements.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Role of solvency surveillance, Role of the valuation actuary, Role of reinsurance, Role of integrated financial services, Role of the American Academy of Actuaries Committees on Life Insurance Company Financial Reporting Principles and on Property and Liability Insurance Financial Reporting Principles.