Description: This article discusses the current status, including differing views, on the treatment of risk transfer in reinsurance agreements under the principle-based reserves PBR approach.

Description: This article views the principle-based methodologies from a future perspective and identifies some inconsistencies in the proposed approach, while presenting some simpler and more consistent alternatives.

Description: An update on the principle-based reserves (PBR) process and possible valuation manual adoption, with recommendations to actuaries on how to prepare.

Description: Author discusses how the proposed new AOMR will affect small companies.

Description: This 2008 article discusses the current status of the statutory principle-based approach PBA to reserves and capital, including risk based capital RBC, federal income tax implications, and other topics, noting that the project is “still a work in process.”

Description: Status of state passage of the new Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum regulation and its effect on Section 7 opinions.

Description: Discusses how AG 34 provides a clarification of CARVM for variable annuities with MGDB’s.

Description: This article discusses the current status of the statutory move towards principle-based reserves, including implications for small insurance companies, noting that the outcome is certainly unclear.

Description: Find more information about Actuarial System Implications of VM-20.

Description: Discusses some of the new and different ideas being considered by the Wilcox Committee that is working on the Unified Valuation System, UVS, especially as they relate to smaller companies.