Description: From the 1985 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A discussion of the principles that should be part of a life insurance valuation. Also discussion of emerging actuarial professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements with respect to methodology for assessing reserve adequacy.

Description: In July 1987, the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Committee on Life Insurance Company Valuation Principles released an exposure draft in which a distinction was made between valuation principles and standards of practice. Rather than including specific standards of practice in the valuation principles themselves, the Committee developed valuation principles to encompass current and future standards of practice. Panelists discuss the work of the valuation actuary in the context of these developments. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 4B.

Description: This is a discussion about the business effects of adoption of the 1958 CSO mortality table, possible reasons for the declining trend in individual life insurance sales, and effects of NY limitations on commissions and developments in agency earnings that could lead to modifications in the agency system.

Description: Discusses professional statutory valuation standards, provides an update on the proposal of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF], and discusses minimum state requirements and federal income tax deductibility for reserves. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 1.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of the process for setting assumptions for cash flow testing of interest sensitive products for reserve valuation analysis under statutory accounting in the USA and Canadian GAAP.