Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 2A: Capital Optimization Strategies and their Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World 10.25.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 9E: Insurance Asset Management in A Post-Pandemic World 10.28.21 Recording

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 8E: Insurance M&A Valuation Methodologies and Considerations 9.1.21 Recording

Description: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is in the middle of of a project to change the real-world economic scenario generator (RW ESG) prescribed for principle-based reserve and capital calculations. The presenters will provide a brief summary of the NAIC's RW ESG project and provide a general overview of RW ESGs. In addition to that, they will explain how RW ESGs impact principle-based reserve and capital levels and consider potential differences between the currently prescribed RW ESG and the proposed RW ESG.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 11A: Thinking Ahead Roadmap: Keep Your Money Safe As You Age 10.28.21 Recording

Description: This paper describes methods for determining bounds on the price of derivative instruments, such as option on insurance futures, given only market information. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - The Win-Win Power of Guaranteed Income Recording

Description: Businesses across the board have been drastically impacted by the effects of COVID-19 over the course of 2020, and insurance was not immune. Perhaps most relevant to this industry’s current capital and liquidity concern is the prevailing low interest rate environment. This has been a global trend in the last decade, and treasury rates in much of the developed world are at or near zero. Reduced investment returns limit an insurer’s ability to achieve their desired return on equity, eliminating previously profitable strategies that depended on the leverage of life and annuity balance sheets. Focus and activity have instead shifted to other methods to counteract the low interest rate markets and accompanying capital strain. Examples include increased mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity within the insurance industry and an increasing focus by private equity firms in the insurance market for asset-intensive products, both of which reflect the goal of increasing yield rates on capital.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session addressed the asset valuation reserve, the interest maintenance reserve, the RBC requirements, and the impact on the company's investment strategies of these reserves.

Description: In session 69PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the proposed/adopted versions of the new NAIC model investment law, and their potential financial and investment strategy impact on insurance companies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.