Description: Panelists discussed, from the perspective of various countries, the current systems of peer review of an actuary's work relating to financial statements.

Description: Experts discuss: [1] recent life-insurer M&A transactions, [2] the seller's perspective, including their motivation and their actuarial appraisal of the book of business, [3] the buyer's perspective, including their motivation and their actuarial appraisal, [4] due diligence, [5] Purchase GAAP [PGAAP], [6] issues that arise at or after the transaction's closing, and [7] reinsurance and non-reinsurance programs that address capital-management and tax-planning needs for such a transaction. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This paper looks at adjusted earnings, adjusted book value and net worth as a means of better measuring the performance of a life insurance company. The paper compares insurance company accounting to other entities and defines adjusted earnings. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 56 AB.

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: In session 70PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss tax, statutory, and GAAP accounting issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: In this article, the authors recap the 2009 Asian IFRS.

Description: Capital market model return expectations took a nose-dive over the past year or two due to historically low interest rates and historically high pricing levels. It seemed reasonable to assume that macroeconomic fundamentals had changed so that these conditions may have become something like ""the new normal"". But now capital markets are shifting again, and rather dramatically, with runaway inflation and monetary policy changes aimed at controlling it. Capital market outlooks are shifting as well in response to this new starting point. What might be reasonable to assume now -- is this just a temporary blip or should we expect a totally different environment going forward? By attending the session, you will: Develop a better understanding of what trends and factors underlie projected interest rates and investment portfolio returns.

Description: Forward looking insurers are reimagining their businesses with key strategic aims around how they engage with their customers and how they make and implement decisions. Industry experts will present a maturity framework for assessing your progress with specific case studies for how to advance in the areas of Management Information, New Business, and Inforce Management.

Description: Sideshow to highlight tradition of Green Jacket within the FR Section. Legal has approved posting this PDF to the section webpage.

Description: A description of current council member areas of responsibility, Life & Annuity Symposium sessions to be sponsored, and other future projects.