Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss a proposed American Academy of Actuaries Life and Health Actuarial Task Force study of current valuation methods applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance. As a result of new products, such as equity indexed annuities, the current formula driven reserving system is in need of basic change.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Number 42, June 2000.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses expectations from asset adequacy analysis including the process of financial condition examination by regulatory authorities, asset cash flows particularly related to mortgages, reliance on investment professionals and recent developments at the NAIC level.

Description: From session 75CS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, Presenters identify issues and challenges faced by the valuation actuary when performing cash-flow testing on equity-indexed and variable products.

Description: In 2005, the Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF] of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] requested that the actuarial professional bodies develop mortality tables for reserving that would better reflect the actual mortality of companies for the mortality of preferred risks underwritten in the marketplace today. Setting different levels of valuation mortality appropriate for preferred risks would largely address issues of reserve redundancy due to the assumption of mortality. This interim report covers the Data Validation, Underwriting Criteria, and Experience Analysis portions of this project.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! March 2005, Issue No. 61.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Regulators discuss their expectations from the Actuarial Report based upon asset adequacy analysis.

Description: Full version of The Life Actuary Newsletter, March 2004, Vol. 2, Issue No. 1.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about historical perspective on guaranty funds, recently activated state guaranty funds, what alternatives are available, what could cause the system to break down, and should guarantee funds exist.

Description: In Session 6 PD of the New Orleans Life Spring Meeting panelists discuss issues related to X-factor opinions as a result of regulation XXX. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1.