Description: This is a report that provides an analysis using data submitted by participating companies evaluating the impact of valuation mortality tables proposed for use in the life insurance industry. This study was designed to help “field test” the proposed tables on calculations for ordinary life insurance statutory reserves under VM-20 and tax reserves, nonforfeiture values, and IRC 7702/7702A.

Description: This report presents mortality under individual immediate annuities, life income settlements, and matured deferred annuities between the 1971 and 1976 anniversaries.

Description: This paper presents a new group annuity mortality table which is being proposed as a new Statutory valuation table.

Description: In session 40PD of the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium, panelists discuss theories and assumptions underlying scenario generators, evaluating appropriateness of generated scenarios, choosing suitable economic scenario generators and use of representative scenarios.

Description: This session from the 2005 SOA New Orleans Meeting discusses issues and concerns related to asset-liability ALM modeling. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1.

Description: The objective of this paper is to analyze the nature of the probability density function of rates of return on common stocks, to develop a simulation model for evaluating the net risk premium for an asset value guarantee at the end of a specified investment period under an equity-based product and to analyze the sensitivity of the net risk premium to changes in several underlying parameters. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 61.

Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses how much of the sex mortality differential is due to smoking habits, how convincing are existing studies, what do worldwide trends in mortality suggest about the effects of smoking and on mortality, how well do insurers classify the smoking risk, and the United States Life Tables for 1979-81 paper by Myers and Bayo.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about modeling investments including the relationship to pricing, modeling techniques, scenario creation, and modeling of collaterized mortgage obligations [CMO].

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about Local Area Networks. Topics addressed: 1. Why are LANs growing in acceptance by organizations today? 2. What do they allow you to do, and how is the business case built to justify them? 3. Why are the human resources required to support LAN users always underestimated? 4. There are many successes in migrating from the mainframe to a personal computer PC/LAN what are the pitfalls to avoid?