Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers GAAP issues and fair value financial reporting including the topics of FAS 115, fair valuation of liabilities, purchase-GAAP accounting and GAAP for mutuals.

Description: Three industry actuarial experts respond to pre-submitted and from-audience questions regarding the future of the valuation actuary, and statutory and GAAP accounting issues. Session 30OF of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: The purpose of this article is twofold. Number one, to estimate the growing level of statutory reserves that are being reinsured offshore, supported by Letters of Credit, as well as by assets held within a trust. Number two, to quantify the redundancy in the reserves due to the conservative nature of the required methodology, combined with the utilization of an outdated mortality table.

Description: This article examines the impact of FAS 97 on the emergence of earnings for the most recent versions of UL products, those with interest rate and return of load kickers.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers emerging GAAP issues including market value accounting and the impact on the company, management information, FAS 97, FAS 115, FAS 107 and FAS 114, recent development in GAAP for mutuals, cash flow testing for reviewing GAAP reserve adequacy and purchase accounting.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at mergers and acquisitions in the insurance business. Recent examples and actuarial considerations in M&A transactions are discussed.

Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session covered the practical aspects of implementing the Statement of Position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. Specific items include SA reporting, multiple account value products, guaranteed minimum death and living benefit reserves and sales inducements

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session addressed some of the unanswered questions with respect to Appointed Actuary issues. Questions addressed: • Should stockholder dividends be included in the appointed actuary's reserve/asset adequacy analysis? • How are appointed actuaries handling Section 7 Opinions in states that have not yet adopted the model regulations? • How are appointed actuaries addressing the aggregate requirement in the state of filing? • What about retroactive/extraterritorial reserve requirements? • Are appointed actuaries addressing the going-concern issues for undercapitalized companies? Should they?

Description: This session from the 1995 New Orleans Meeting covers FASB/AICPA pronouncements concerning application of GAAP to mutual life insurance companies. Panelists will discuss practical issues, including materiality and use of approximations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Full version of THE FINANCIAL REPORTER, May 2004, Issue No. 57