Description: The only indices set out in the Annual Statement are 1 the ratio of net investment income to mean assets in Exhibit 2, and 2 those ratios in Schedule H and the Accident and Health Policy Experience Exhibit the Exhibit. The impropriety of the Schedule H and Exhibit ratios as meaningful indicators is discussed below. It is assumed in the discussion that statutory accounting principles and considerations are operative, and the superiority of indices based on generally accepted accounting or economic value principles is not advanced. The statutory indices adjusted and unadjusted are used and referred to by regulators, industry groups, trade journals, and others. Thus, within the context of statutory accounting, the indices should be properly determined.

Description: The Society's Task Force to Study Risk of Loss from Changes in the Interest Rate Environment C-3 Risk Task Force was formed in March 1981 with the charge to quantify C-3 risk. The Task Force made a preliminary report as part of a panel discussion on C-3 risk at the Society's October 1981 meeting in Atlanta. This presentation provides an update on the progress to date and its future plans.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Capital gains and losses accounting, Internal sales of investments among portfolios, Equity investment accounting, Internal stripping of securities, Internally manufactured puts and calls, Allocation of taxes and investment expenses among portfolios, Accounting systems needed.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Applicable accounting rules, Replaced policies' unamortized acquisition costs, Capitalizing additional acquisition costs for new policies, Anti-selection on mortality experience of residual block, New policies' appropriate lapse, mortality and interest assumptions, Loss recognition testing, Differences in accounting treatment between the United States and Canada.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses individual disability income reserves and profit measures.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session talks about the Long-Term Care Insurance Valuation Task Force report.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. The Financial Accounting Standards Board 'FASB' introduced two pronouncements during 2001 that materially change the way in which companies account for purchase transactions, both retroactively and prospectively.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session focuses on implementation and regulatory interpretation issues.

Description: This paper develops an analytical method for evaluating the utility of tax-planning activities that cause initial statutory surplus strain and expands the horizon beyond normal pricing applications to the evaluation of other activities requiring the initial investment of statutory surplus.

Description: This paper will provide demonstrations of the following three statements: That the calculation of principles-based reserves should ignore federal income taxes That the currently required statutory deferred tax calculation would need to be changed to permit an appropriate deferred tax asset to accompany such reserve so that the result can be correctly principles-based on a post-tax basis That the Tax DAC, pursuant to Section 848 of the Internal Revenue Code, is effectively a negative tax reserve.