Description: State insurance department actuary, who also is on two committees of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], discusses current NAIC activities regarding nonforfeiture, sales illustrations, and replacements for life products and sales illustrations for annuities, as well as equity-indexed annuities [EIAs]. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 53, June 2003.

Description: This article is about equity indexed products sold by insurance companies, the regulatory scrutiny they are generating, and the initiatives being taken by actuaries to resolve these issues and concerns.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at proposed and potential tax law changes for insurance companies including 'DAC Tax', stock versus mutual company differences, corporate owned life insurance, and taxing inside build up.

Description: Discusses multi-scenario [stochastic] cash-flow testing for adequacy of reserves. Session 2 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists – including a New York state insurance regulator, an insurance-company qualified actuary, and a consulting actuary – discuss initial results from the NY filings for 1986 and 1987, the challenges complying with Reg 126, and what companies have learned so far from it. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a Teaching Session, number 4A, from the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The subject of the session is Regulation 126, effective for year end 1986 for all companies doing business in New York, which requires an actuarial opinion and memorandum with respect to the adequacy of the assets to support the liabilities for annuities, guaranteed investment products, and related products. The instructor discusses areas of concern from New York as a result of the first year of filings, including completeness, call and prepayment assumptions, default assumptions [sometimes zero], surrender assumptions [too low], failure to reflect taxes, poor communication between actuary and investment department, length of projections, varying yield curves, reflection of reinsurance, and the most common reason for rejecting the opinion: using starting assets greater than liabilities. Other problems were illustrated through examples, and changes to Regulation 126 were discussed.

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

Description: The Financial Reporter Section Newsletter, June 1, 2007, Issue No. 69