Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses: Financial Reporting Section meeting, NAIC activities, Financial reporting environment in Canada, Standards for valuation actuaries, FASB activities with respect to accounting for universal life and annuities.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium polls the audience on different questions related to valuation actuary work. It also covers other issues including the impact of risk-based capital requirements on testing, HMO opinions and other general questions.

Description: This paper explores a reserving technique in which profits are recognized as a percentage of assets. Followed by a discussion of the paper.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., presented information on the management of assets in relationship to liabilities. The information was based on a report from the C-3 Risk Task Force. Topics included: 1. Design of investment strategies to develop cash flow patterns appropriate with the liabilities. 2. Structuring the company to assure that investment returns are channeled to appropriate lines of business. 3. Valuing liabilities to appropriately recognize the relationship between assets and liabilities. 4. Should the actuary be concerned with certification of assets as well as liabilities? 5. Equity among lines contributing to investable cash flow.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session addressed the asset valuation reserve, the interest maintenance reserve, the RBC requirements, and the impact on the company's investment strategies of these reserves.

Description: The Society's Task Force to Study Risk of Loss from Changes in the Interest Rate Environment C-3 Risk Task Force was formed in March 1981 with the charge to quantify C-3 risk. The Task Force made a preliminary report as part of a panel discussion on C-3 risk at the Society's October 1981 meeting in Atlanta. This presentation provides an update on the progress to date and its future plans.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This panel examined the development and use of RBC requirements from an international perspective. Specific topics included: • Regulatory context and background. • Role of RBC in regulation. • Influence on industry practiceinvestments? products? • Problems, issues, and expected future developments.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Applicable accounting rules, Replaced policies' unamortized acquisition costs, Capitalizing additional acquisition costs for new policies, Anti-selection on mortality experience of residual block, New policies' appropriate lapse, mortality and interest assumptions, Loss recognition testing, Differences in accounting treatment between the United States and Canada.

Description: Panelists provide updates on: [1] NAIC activities on statutory reporting and accounting changes, [2] new FASB Statements 94, 95, 96, and 97, and [3] one firm's experiences implementing these changes. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: This panel discussion is from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The panelists start their discussion with an overview of the history of actuarial standards, and the operations of the Actuarial Standards Board, ‘ASB,” the autonomous body responsible for setting standards of practice. The discussion covers standards affecting insurance company actuaries and consultants, and the value and impact of standards on the actuary's work. Panelists also suggest areas where additional standards are needed. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.