Description: This panel discussion session focused on the practical applications of risk theory.

Description: Presented at September 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session presents the approaches of a stock and a mutual company to surplus management, and the application of recent research in risk theory to surplus management.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists addressed the practical implications of how to use value-at-risk in a real-life setting, risk-based surplus, and an update of the C-3 component of RBC. This session is a mix between the regulatory situation and quantitative analysis.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 11OF, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The panelists discuss recent Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP] developments and practical problems in implementing and maintaining GAAP systems. Topics include recent GAAP pronouncements and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] Insurance Companies Committee developments. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue 45, March 2001.

Description: This article discusses a new study note on Risk Theory, being circulated to May 1982 Part 5 students, bringing this subject more into the mainstream of actuarial science. The study note consists of five self-contained chapters, dealing almost exclusively with Risk Theory, from a new contingencies textbook being written by five distinguished actuaries.

Description: Stochastic DAC Unlocking for Variable Annuity Products by Alastair Longley-Cook, Dick Shaw, Mike Sherrill, and Jay Vadiveloo from The Financial Reporter, March 2001, Issue No. 45.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed the product management actuary and the product management process. Topics discussed : 1. The monitoring of the environment and how that monitoring leads to the generation of ideas. 2. Consideration of how those ideas are affected by distribution, marketing, and organizational issues. 3. The setting of assumptions. 4. How to get different areas of your company to work together, and ways to bring the product to market as quickly as possible. 5. How to manage business once your company places it on the books.

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 18, is the first part for the Practitioners' Forum. The goal of this session is to address some of the major issues and concerns of actuarial managers.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session covers NAIC 2001 changes to RBC requirements, the impact they have had on regulators, the rating agency reaction and proposed changes for 2002.