Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. The new SVL has expanded the scope and responsibilities of the valuation actuary. Topics covered: • Risk of legal liability for actuaries? • Vagueness of actuarial standards related to adequacy testing? • Reliance on other company experts? • Consultants versus company actuary perspectives? • The science versus the art of the process?

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 2PD, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The panelists provide an overview of current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products, to be covered in-depth at subsequent sessions. Topics include: new valuation table for life insurance NAIC Actuarial Guidelines [AG] for variable product guaranteed living benefits and for equity-indexed universal life [ZZZZ] amendments to the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] progress on Unified Valuation System [UVS] Model Regulations on Separate Accounts Funding Group Contracts with Guarantees, and on Synthetic Guaranteed Investment Contracts [GICs] regulatory concern over liquidity and Regulation XXX mortality X factors.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session on repricing the in-force book of business addressed ASB requirements, data gathering, assumption setting, modeling considerations, coordination with financial areas, par versus interest-sensitive products, and communicating results to management.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium provides an introduction and overview to the symposium including several NAIC-related activities, regulation XXX, proposed GGG regulation, and the entire life practice notes at the time.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session, the presenter offered her opinion that, while time consuming and burdensome, the results obtained from testing associated with Regulation 126 are worthwhile.

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 session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting covers the Society's research activities directly related to dynamic solvency testing, DST, a historical perspective of insolvencies and the uses of DST to determine financial impairment. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This presentation is from session number 2, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. They provide updates on the Unified Valuation Law [UVL] Task Force, equity-indexed products [including NAIC actuarial guidelines ZZZ and ZZZZ], NAIC actuarial guidelines XXXIII and XXXIV, variable annuity guaranteed living benefits VAGLB, the NAIC Model Regulation for Group Annuity Separate Accounts, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] revisions, and other current topics.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provides a brief overview and status of a variety of recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners statutory financial reporting developments.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at an overview of developments in 1993 including a regulator's viewpoint of various valuation actuary issues, an update on the valuation actuary and health insurance, current developments in reinsurance that should be considered in the valuation process and a sample actuarial opinion and memorandum.