Description: This session is about the Report on Actuarial Principles and Practical Problems with Regard to Nonforfeiture Requirements but it also includes a summary of written responses to the Report, developments on the regulatory scene, and recent work of other committees studying nonforfeiture or related areas. From the 1976 Record, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss level term insurance, preferred risk underwriting, and the impact of proposed NAIC Actuarial Guideline XXX on statutory reserves. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: 1999 SOA Regional Meeting, Atlanta. In this XXX update panelist discuss: 1. History of XXX. 2. Developments and the impact of changes on the original XXX. 3. Impact of changes on the pricing actuary. 4. A regulatory perspective from a regulator.

Description: Discusses the reasons for changing emphasis on reserve strengthening programs and looks at methods adopted to emphasize the reserve character of undistributed surplus.

Description: Panel discussion of the following topics: A. Recent revisions been made in the mortality, interest, and expense assumptions upon which life insurance premium rates are based. B. Factors considered in recent revisions of premium rates for substandard risks. C. The extent to which deficiency reserves been required as a result of recent decreases in nonparticipating premium rates for life insurance D. Recent changes in disability premium rates for women.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. The new SVL has expanded the scope and responsibilities of the valuation actuary. Topics covered: • Risk of legal liability for actuaries? • Vagueness of actuarial standards related to adequacy testing? • Reliance on other company experts? • Consultants versus company actuary perspectives? • The science versus the art of the process?

Description: There are so many things going on in the life market that challenge and engage all parties of the insurance transaction. The presenters will cover a variety of aspects of the life market including accelerated underwriting, principle based reserves, and regulatory and product changes occurring in the life insurance market. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Describe how the life insurance market is being impacted by changes internal and external to companies - Describe how companies are navigating changing underwriting landscape - Explain how regulations may impact companies going forward

Description: Institutional investors such as pension plans and insurance companies have enjoyed strong equity returns for a length of time with few historical precedents. Nearly a decade after the end of the financial crisis, strategies to provide downside protection remain expensive and the performance of traditional risk-managed funds has disappointed investors.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1957 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 21-22 in New York City. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss adoption of a new mortality table and the need for deficiency reserves, the impact of new tables on participating and nonparticipating companies, and dividend patterns, whether new tables should be expected to remain an appropriate standard for an extended period, and the question of changing reserve and nonforfeiture interest rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957 Volume 9, Number 24.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. In this session the panelists discussed the new standard valuation law. Areas covered included: 1. Risk of legal liability? 2. Vagueness of actuarial standards? 3. Reliance on other company experts? 4. Consultants versus company actuary perspectives? 5. The science versus the art of the process?