Description: This session discussion is about state-mandated health benefits. Who should decide and who should pay? The basis of making decisions, effect on insurance rates, impact on self-insurance, legislative process and timing of savings. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 1.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting give an overview of the new methodology to compute the C-3 component of statutory risk-based capital and quantification of the impact of the change in methodology. Issues from a regulatory perspective and from a company perspective are discussed.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Topics discussed in this session included developing an approach to quantifying C-3 risk and exploring ways to improve the C-3 component of the NAIC RBC formula.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. The SOA has co-sponsored a research project on the use of derivatives by the insurance industry, using annual statement data reported by insurance companies. This session presents the results of the study, and implications with respect to sufficiency of RBC are discussed.

Description: This article reviews the topics discussed at the December 2004 meeting of the Life and Health Actuarial task force. The covered topics include Actuarial Guideline 38 and Reserves for Variable Annuities C-3 Phase 2 reserves.

Description: Summary of the December 2003 NAIC Meeting

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. In this interactive presentation, the panel fielded investment questions from the audience. Prepared and audience questions included: 1. What is the FLUX measure? What's it supposed to do for regulators and insurance companies? 2. What sort of things really went on that caused the difficulties at Executive Life, First Capital, and Mutual Benefit? 3. What are some examples of hedges that you would recommend for a $100 million SPDA portfolio to try and combat the effects of rising interest rates? 4. Given the changes that experienced in interest rates, what's that been doing to the durations of typical interest-sensitive liabilities? 5. What do you do to hedge with derivatives or whatever if interest rates are going down? 6. What level of asset-liability matching do companies usually target? How do regulators view this?

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the challenge of how to regulate and account for the growing number of derivative products in the context of their multiple applications.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about various aspects of long term care insurance from the viewpoints of an agent, a regulator and an investor.

Description: In session 132 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the content and status of the draft NAIC Actuarial Guideline ZZZ and the work of the AAA Task Force on Variable Products with Guaranteed Living Benefits. The Black-Scholes option pricing method is also covered. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.