Description: This actuarial note is in the nature of an addendum to the paper describing the development of the Commissioners 1960 Standard Group Mortality Table and the 1961 Standard Group Life Insurance Premium Rates based thereon 'TSA, XIII, 586'. A comparison of Canadian to US mortality is made, with this data being used to develop minimum term premiums for Canada.

Description: This paper attempts to quantify the benefits to the purchaser of a non-qualified variable annuity as compared to an investment in a mutual fund. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 3.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this teaching session on Equity-Indexed Annuities, the panelists discussed the background and techniques of the NAIC's Guideline ZZZ, what must be done, the market-value-based methods, the book-value method, and ideas regarding making the best overall choice among the methods.

Description: This 1979 session is about the New Valuation Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance. Topics included: I. The Recommendation of Sex-distinct Tables 2. The Development of Basic Tables - Data Selection, Construction, Graduation 3. Margins and the Development of Loaded Tables 4. Implications for the Industry

Description: U.K. life insurers writing participating business are required by the Financial Services Authority to value their assets and liabilities on a market-consistent basis. The purpose of this paper is to: • Explain the valuation approach based on market-consistent values and its rationale. • Set out the issues faced by life insurers in implementing the regime. • Explain how insurers addressed these issues. • Explain the importance of the modeling techniques they used.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session was about issues relating to term insurance including product design, pricing, compensation, and reserving issues.

Description: This article discusses the adoption of the AICPA Statement of Position SOP 03-1 altering the way earnings emerge under FAS 97 and the impact of the enactment of SOX control requirements.

Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. The chairperson and members of the SOA LTC Insurance Valuation Methods Task Force discussed the major conclusions and decisions found in the exposure draft of the Society's Task Force for LTC Insurance Valuation Methods.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A panel of actuarial regulators answered the questions: 1. What are the regulatory expectations from asset adequacy analysis? 2. When regulators review a company's opinion and memoranda, what are the things they are looking for? 3. What are the things that haven't been done as well as they like? 4. What do they feel can be improved on in the process? 5. How does the process itself work?

Description: This paper presents an analysis of the basic actuarial theory for life insurance policies which have fixed premiums, the entire reserve held in a separate account, the assets of which would be invested primarily in common stocks, etc. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 1, No. 61