Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. In this panel discussion of the evaluation of the adequacy of capital, the speakers addressed the NAIC risk-based capital proposal, rating agency techniques, and valuation actuary views.

Description: 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session about small company issues, the panel discussed the role of actuaries in strategic alliances, the cost of regulatory compliance, and cash-flow-testing software.

Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Discussion of financial restructuring trends and the impact of those trends on the insurance industry and challenges for those companies that have recently experienced some form of financial restructuring.

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: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Questions asked and answered included: 1. What do regulators expect or want as far as asset adequacy analysis for shorter-term liabilities such as IBNR? 2. What responsibility does the appointed actuary have in verifying reserves for reinsured business? 3. If the assets for the market value adjusted annuity are held in a separate account and valued at market, what rates should be used to present value the projected guaranteed benefits? 4. May a company perform the cash-flow testing based on the low level of reserves held in the domiciliary state rather than the higher reserve actually held in the state with the special state in filing? 5. Have there been any situations where an opining valuation actuary has been held personally responsible?

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about trends in life company impairments and insolvencies. Topics included: 1. Recent insolvencies - are there similar situations waiting to be discovered? 2. How meaningful are current financial statements? 3. What do rating agencies say? How much confidence is there in their ratings? 4. The role of cash-flow testing, AVR/IMR, and risk-based capital formulas.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A panel of actuarial regulators answered the questions: 1. What are the regulatory expectations from asset adequacy analysis? 2. When regulators review a company's opinion and memoranda, what are the things they are looking for? 3. What are the things that haven't been done as well as they like? 4. What do they feel can be improved on in the process? 5. How does the process itself work?

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers liquidity including the external view of liquidity, the internal view of liquidity and liquidity ratios and an actual liquidity stress situation. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discussion includes: case history of Inter-State Assurance Company, case history of Unionmutual Life, Society of Actuaries Task Force on Mutual Life Insurance Company Conversion, Demutualization legislation Proposed in New York.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session reviewed the state of developments on the draft of the NAIC Model Investment Law.