Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session covered the Far East markets in terms of size, growth, products, marketing and distribution, regulation, market entry, business strategies, and cultural issues.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about an update on various committee activities and interests in the US and Canada, and a review of the status of specialized topics such as nonforfeiture and reserve standards, GAAP, valuation actuary, and UL reporting.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented information related to the philosophy and practice of investment income allocation. Topics inlcluded: investment income allocation for individual and group products, subdivision of investment income by line of business, new money rates applicability for individual and group products, investment considerations for pension, annuity and life insurance, and regulatory restraints. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: This panel discussion considers some of the approaches, techniques and problems in the development of corporate models and assumptions. The pros and cons of buying versus developing models was discussed and the use of deterministic versus stochastic models was addressed as well.