Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting Panelists will review the Canadian experience in adopting dynamic solvency testing DST and the impact of DST on how companies do business, changes which have been made and the changes suggested to the DST. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session discussed the work of the Modeling Subcommittee of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries Solvency Standards Committee. Resource materials were the Statement of Direction of the CIA Solvency Standards Committee and an illustrative report on solvency testing for a hypothetical insurance company.

Description: This teaching session was presented as Session 6B at the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The subject was modeling techniques for use in testing the scenarios being developed by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, ‘CIA,’ Solvency Standards Committee. The presenters, members of the Committee, have been working on developing a generic modeling approach. Their presentation is limited to the first of three phases of proposed CIA standards for solvency reporting dealing with scenario testing, namely the projection of surplus under various prescribed and selected scenarios.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. Discusses accounting methods in different countries as well as recent developments in international accounting standards for insurance.

Description: The U.S. actuarial profession is debating whether to introduce Dynamic Solvency Testing DST in the United States and what role it should take in the regulatory process. This article offers some insight into how the DST has fared in Canada, what issues have emerged since it was introduced, and how the DST will evolve differently in the United States.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the obligations and requirements with respect to cash flow testing for yearend 1991, at that time contained in Actuarial Standard of Practice No. 14. Topics include difficulties in the cash-flow testing process, such as asset and liability construction and assumptions, and strategy. Other topics are interpretation of results, how to cost-justify cash-flow testing, Canadian cash-flow techniques and issues, and asset liquidation versus borrowing. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.