Description: Slides from a panel discussion session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 Discussion of the basics of actuarial appraisals: Panelists discussed the reasons to perform an actuarial appraisal, the processes involved, issues that should be addressed and assumption development.

Description: Full version of Small Talk Newsletter, May 1998, Issue No. 11.

Description: The purpose of this research is to a) identify regulatory structures and influences in North America, b) provide examples that illustrate regulatory risk, and c) suggest mitigation ideas for both insurers and their regulators. The audiences for this paper are a) actuaries who must price policies, value policies, or manage capital, b) other insurance professionals who deal with operational risk, strategic risk, and capital planning, and c) regulators who protect the interests of policyholders and address the solvency of insurers.

Description: This article discusses the current state of the IAIS' initiative on their group Insurance Capital Standard.

Description: This article highlights the two days the Republic of China Delegates spent in the Chicago area meeting with Actuaries in Chicago.

Description: Under the leadership of recent and current Section chairs, your Council has committed to creating a new textbook on U.S. GAAP for life insurance company actuaries.

Description: This article compares earnings emergence under five popular world-wide accounting bases for two insurance products, term life and fixed deferred annuity.

Description: Full version of International Section News, July 2007, Issue No. 42.

Description: This article is a recap of three international actuarial meetings that were held back-to-back-to-back in March 2010.

Description: Calls for volunteers to assist SOA with studying the impact of the IASB's issuance of its second of three pronouncements on how insurance contracts should be accounted for general accounting purposes.