Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This individual annuity product update focused on a market overview, SEC developments, market value adjusted annuities, and the marketing of annuities through financial institutions.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting discusses variable annuities with guaranteed living benefits including an overview of the market and risk management practices from the viewpoints of a reinsurer, including hedging options, and a rating agency.

Description: Panel discussion gives the latest update on: Single Premium Whole Life, Single Premium Variable Life, Variable Universal Life, and Annuities. Includes current industry sales figures and distributions of variable-account assets for these products. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This session discussion is about recent insurance-department activity, current American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] issues, and insolvency issues pertaining to reinsurance. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session presents analysts' views on major insurance multinationals, discussing the way investment analysts look at large companies in determining their buy/sell recommendations.

Description: Panelists discuss economic capital, capital modeling, and hedge modeling, especially for guaranteed living benefits [GLBs] on variable annuities. Session 34PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting explore economic capital from the standpoint of an SOA task force including an industry survey, one company's implementation, and a regulator.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 12OF, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] has proposed a requirement that certain products have risk-based capital [RBC] C-3 determined as the greater of a calculation based on fixed factors, and results of a formalized cash-flow test. The panelists provide a summary of the requirements of C-3 testing, followed by an open discussion regarding implementation issues and other questions.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 58OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists present both theoretical and practical perspectives of the role of assumed asset returns and credit spreads in determining the fair value of policyholder liabilities. They cover financial economics, how other financial service companies value liabilities, what factors go into determining an appropriate discount rate for insurance liabilities, and issues currently being debated by the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB], and the Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: In this presentation from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting, equity analysts describe their views of the quantitative and qualitative factors that drive insurance company stock market valuation levels. The analysts identify current issues and concerns for the companies they cover. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.