Description: A summary of a preliminary report from the Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, on guidelines for quantifying balance sheet items in an insurance enterprise.

Description: Discusses how companies must ensure that significant and necessary product development, and administrative and compliance system changes, have been completed and tested in time to accommodate new requirements.

Description: A presentation on the theory underlying Gross Premium Valuation reserves and techniques for computing them for purposes of compliance with asset adequacy testing of statutory reserves

Description: Covers: 1. The current status of permissive legislation, monetary values, and new policies 2. Considerations in changing from CRVM to net level premium reserves 3. What are companies considering with regards to changes in cash value patterns 4. Consideration being given to changes in the mortality basis for substandard premiums as a result of recent experience and how is this affected by the adoption of the new CSO tables.

Description: This is a discussion on valuation and examines small company reserves and methods used in valuing disability, double indemnity, family income and other benefits in determining the reserve released by voluntary terminations. From Transaction of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This discussion looks at the valuation methods of small companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.

Description: This session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an overview of statutory valuation issues for life and annuity products including the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation, variable products reserving standard, adoption of 2001 CSO, C-3 Phase II RBC project and nonforfeiture changes.

Description: Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF VM-20 Subgroup activities and the Academy’s Life Reserve Working Group dealing with feedback from the VM-20 impact study.

Description: Illustrates key differences, in earnings for a segment of term insurance, between current GAAP standards and GAAP targeted improvements (based on tentative board decisions preceding the release of an exposure draft).

Description: This article reports the maximum statutory valuation and nonforfeiture interest rates for calendar year 2004 issues of life insurance products and the maximum statutory valuation interest rates for calendar year 2003 issues of annuity products.