Description: This paper examines inclusion of the value of future new business in value-added financial reporting. The objective of the paper is to develop methods to provide useful information to management that links the pricing, planning and reporting process.

Description: This PBA Implementation Guide provides verbal summaries and visual flow chart overviews of various VM-20 and PBA components and requirements, six Case Study Road Maps, and action items to bridge the gaps and implement PBA. During the Guide’s development these templates and exercises were vetted with more than 15 participants selected from a diverse group of companies

Description: This paper attempts to develop an actuarial rationalization for the governance of a mutual life insurance company. It addresses setting surplus targets, long term growth objectives, internal performance accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: The principal purpose of this paper is to examine some of the factors that must be considered if the concept of investment generations is applied to the distribution of investment income within individual life insurance lines of business. It also includes a discussion of the paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1977, Vol. 29.

Description: This paper addresses the extension of the theory of life contingencies to a stochastic interest environment and its application to solvency valuation and surplus. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This paper presents a new insight into the mathematical structure of asset share-type calculations. Asset shares are interpreted as accumulations of insurance cash flows, which along with their related investment income, are treated as Stieltjes integrals. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: This panel discussion looks at answering the following questions: What methods are used in computing Incurred but Unreported Claims? To what extent are approximations used in determining items for the Analysis of Increase in Reserve? What records can be closed out early to facilitate annual statement preparation? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 33.

Description: This paper deals with the policy reserves for future benefits that arise under retrospectively experience-rated group insurance policies. The reserves discussed are true policy-year reserves and should not be confused with the statutory rating refund liability, which represents the amount of the current policy year's dividend or experience rating refund earned between the last policy anniversary and December 31.From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This discussion from the smaller company forum sought to answer the following question: What procedures can be followed to produce reasonably reliable profit and loss statements during the year?. From Transactions of society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.