Description: This session 112 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting covers principles developed during the Unified Valuation System UVS project of the American Academy of Actuaries with support from the Society of Actuaries and the Financial Reporting Section of the SOA. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is a panel discussion on the status of the valuation actuary and the change in the valuation law.

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 18, is the first part for the Practitioners' Forum. The goal of this session is to address some of the major issues and concerns of actuarial managers.

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: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 17 discusses market value measures and its uses in asset liability management.

Description: The IFRS 17 implementation deadline is near and companies have decisions to make. While many decisions pertain to specific IFRS 17 requirements, others are more strategic in nature. This session will explore key considerations and decisions faced by stakeholders as they finalize their implementation work and determine ongoing best practices in light of this new standard.

Description: IFRS 17 will be effective as of 1 Jan 2023 and provide opportunities as well as challenges to both Direct Writers and Reinsurers across the insurance industry. If the new framework is not fully understood, an implementation can elevate the risk of problems in financial reporting, product development, investment management and more. The transition to IFRS provides an opportunity for companies to optimize the financial position of the enterprise by implementing mitigating strategies to reduce the risks and challenges that IFRS brings to the table.

Description: The rapid and persistent rise in rates has increased many insurer's concerns around liquidity, disintermediation, and overall ALM risk management. Learn an overview of ALM, including the goals and reasons for performing it, common approaches, and real-world examples of common pit falls and mistakes that have been made in the industry. Explore the differences in approaches, and the pros and cons of these various approaches.Learn about the importance of understanding the ALM approach, with clearly defined strategic objectives. Additionally,discover an understanding of the value to both managing risk and optimizing enterprise value. Come away with a deep appreciation for the value that a well-constructed ALM program can bring to valuation/capital planning/asset adequacy testing/pricing (life and annuity).

Description: This session series is sponsored by Hannover Re Session 2 - COVID-19: Financial Impacts and Re-shaping Risk and Capital Management Practices COVID-19 has posed significant challenges to health insurers and providers to meet profit targets and maintain strong balance sheets and capitalization levels. As a result, companies are facing an ever-increasing need to better integrate their risk and capital management practices across the enterprise and evaluate a broader set of tools to manage and optimize their capital and liquidity needs. This second session of the COVID-19 series will help you examine the financial impact that COVID-19 has had on the health industry and review how companies are evolving their financial and capital management practices to achieve their strategic goals. It will also outline how structured reinsurance has emerged as an increasingly utilized form of managing capital. By attending this session, you will be able to explain how COVID-19 has impacted the financial performance and capitalization of the health insurance industry, and will gain a basic understanding of alternative ways of managing and optimizing capital, including the use of structired reinsurance.

Description: This session discussion is about methods for determining and adjusting contingency surplus. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.