Description: Update on Financial Reporting Council activities.

Description: The article provides an introduction to tax accounting for U.S. life insurance companies, with a focus on NAIC statutory accounting concepts. The author discusses permanent and temporary differences, the current tax provision, and deferred tax accounting requirements, including admissibility testing under SSAP No. 101.

Description: A discussion of life insurance securitizations and how they can be structured to provide surplus relief associated with onerous reserve requirements.

Description: The Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation states that the purpose of asset adequacy analysis is to certify that assets are adequate to cover reserves under “moderately adverse conditions.” This article discusses the determination of whether an interest yield scenario is moderately adverse or extreme.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Atlanta Meeting covers statutory reporting, GAAP reporting, management reporting and accounting treatment of new generation life and annuity products such as universal Life, UL and flexible premium annuities. It also discusses the NAIC proposed regulation for univeral life insurance and the actuarial opinion required under the regulation.

Description: The paper sets forth a procedure, based on actual experience, for determining extra life insurance reserves for term insurance conversion rights for annual statement purposes. Followed by several submitted discussion papers.

Description: As the portion of inforce business valued under PBR grows, it becomes increasingly important to not only calculate reserves for point-in-time valuation but to also project reserves. This is especially critical for actuarial functions such as pricing, business strategy/forecasting, and asset adequacy testing. In this session, we will review PBR projection techniques based on work completed by the American Academy of Actuaries when developing the PBA Projection Practice Note. In addition, this session will examine specific challenges that can arise when actuaries use models to project reserves at future dates. Topics covered include mortality improvement, credibility, scenario generation, starting asset projections, and various other technical issues related to nested modeling requiring both inner and outer loop projections.

Description: This article gives an overview of the NAIC codification project, which describes procedures and methods for compiling statutory financial statements. A number of accounting principles included in codification are described.

Description: update on regulatory issues focusing on PBR

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meetings, Jacksonville and Chicago. This is a discussion about statutory reporting issues surrounding group term and group accident and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2.