Description: On June 10, 2016, the Taxation Section hosted a webcast entitled “Federal Income Tax Issues Every Company Must Consider under Life PBR.” Panelists Kristin R. Norberg, Mark S. Smith, and Peter H. Winslow led the audience through an exploration of the many potential tax issues and areas of interpretation that will arise once principle-based reserves (PBR) becomes the new statutory financial reporting regime for life insurance contracts. This brief article recaps the webcast and provides an update on continuing PBR adoption activity.

Description: Panelists provide background and updates on a number of statutory issues relating to life and annuity products, including statutory codification implementation, Actuarial Guideline MMMM, Actuarial Guideline AXXX and implications of the movement to the 2001 CSO table. Changes to federal reporting requirements, through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, are briefly discussed relative to the recent accounting problems in the news. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 3. Session 78OF of the Boston Annual Meeting.

Description: Adjusting GAAP reinsurance reserves to account for reinsurance protection against the events that trigger direct reserve constraints (such as NPR capping or LFPB flooring) can be a challenge any time. Ceding a block of business that is already in force increases the challenge—especially if one of those constraints was already present at inception of the reinsurance. This article builds on previous work (published in the July 2022 and June 2023 issues) to show how to measure initial reinsurance reserves in a way that complies with AICPA guidance and prepares for effective measurement of subsequent changes in the effects of the constraints.

Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

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Description: The 1980 CSO Tables were developed by the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation to replace the existing 1958 CSO Tables as the minimum standard for valuation. This paper presents the new tables and recommendations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' paper by Sternhell.

Description: Regulators observed a wide range of practice from early adopters of PBR in regard to the treatment of non-guaranteed reinsurance and adopted a formulaic solution on an interim basis for the 2020 Valuation Manual. A field test, supplemented with additional analysis performed using a model-office approach with representative models, is being performed over the first half of 2020 to inform regulators as they select a longer-term solution. This session will provide an update on this important issue as well as perspectives on how the resolution of this issue was approached and lessons learned for the future from those intimately involved in this work.

Description: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: July 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.