Description: This article reviews some of the highlights of th 2010 SOA Annual meeting including the impact on pricing resulting from Solvency II, Market Consistent Valuation of New Business - MCVNB, the latest on mortality, Standards of Practice in product development, managing risk in product design and a regulation update.

Description: An article recapping the SOA's participation in the NAIC Summer 2023 meeting.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session provided an update on the appointed actuary. Topics included: 1. Provided preliminary results of a 1992 cash-flow-testing survey that was sent to a number of life companies in the U.S. 2. A discussion of the position taken by one actuary who did not do cash-flow testing in forming an opinion for his company's 1992 annual statement. 3. How to deal with failed scenarios. 4. The evolution of the appointed actuary's role at MetLife. 5. How the process currently works at MetLife. 6. Insights on where MetLife sees the process going.

Description: The article discusses the proposed revisions to the AOMR Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum and how it will affect insurance companies.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium reviews the appointed actuary concept, the actuarial opinion and asset adequacy analysis as they apply to health insurance and expresses the views of one regulator on the subject and one actuary in terms of the actuarial standards of practice.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on Long Term Care Insurance addressed the following topics: 1. Highlights of research that HIAA has completed on long-term care. 2. Regulatory developments of long-term care such as state legislation on nonforfeiture. 3. Congressional activity and tax policy. 4. Research on the affordability of various long-term-care products and nonforfeiture options.

Description: This Open Forum took place as Session 7B at the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discuss the conflicting demands between the actuarial profession and company management which face the Valuation Actuary in Canada. Topics of discussion include demands on the actuary from the profession, those in place and those being proposed, and demands from management being placed on the actuary, and how the profession and Canadian Institute of Actuaries may be of assistance.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA New York Meeting covers future trends in the regulation of life insurance company valuation with an accompanying discussion note, the responsibility of the valuation actuary, the actuarial opinon and the SOA and AAA support of the valuation actuary. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 3

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses issues affecting small companies such as actuarial standards of practice, regulatory concerns and practical experience. It covers whether asset adequacy analysis must be done depending on Section 7 or Section 8 status, the liabilities that must be covered in the appointed actuary's opinion, reliance on others and cash flow testing exemption criteria.

Description: This presentation is an Interactive Forum, session number 20IF, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss the American Academy’s Valuation Task Force and its committees working on the proposal to revise the Standard Valuation Law, referred to as the Unified Valuation Law [UVL], to update participants as to the status of the committees’ work. They provide a description of the activities currently taking place, and an update of where the revisions process stands and what the next steps are. The current system versus what is proposed are discussed, including concerns of regulators. Discussion from participants is included.