Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. The stated purpose of this session was to discuss specifically how a company can manage and improve its financial performance as measured by the statutory financial statement. Eleven strategies to improve performance were addressed.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about risk-based capital, NAIC activities, and how Blue Cross/Blue Shield's initiatives intertwine with the model bill on RBC that the NAIC has proposed.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Presents tips, techniques, and models for Disabled Life Reserve and incurred but not reported 'IBNR' reserves.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses GAAP topics including purchase accounting, UL, deferred acquisition costs and others. The value of interim earnings reports and statutory issues are also examined. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session debates the following resolution - resolved: the actuary should be required to express an opinion in life insurance company statements regarding the valuation adequacy of projected future cash flows.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Role of solvency surveillance, Role of the valuation actuary, Role of reinsurance, Role of integrated financial services, Role of the American Academy of Actuaries Committees on Life Insurance Company Financial Reporting Principles and on Property and Liability Insurance Financial Reporting Principles.

Description: The Group Life Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed the 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table Report. There were several compelling reasons to develop a new experience study and table, not the least of which was that 35 years is a long interval for any study. This is the excel Calculation Spreadsheet for Reserve Factors for Group Term Waiver of Premium [NAIC version]. Please see the SOA website for the Report of the Group Life Experience Committee for March 2006.

Description: After the bid process, desk review, rebate reallocation, an “enjoyable” audit, and open enrollment; the Medicare plan year starts. Throughout the year, organizations find it pertinent to get an accurate picture of their Part D liability as reinsurance, LICS (Low Income Cost-Sharing) subsidy, and risk corridors are accrued. Attendees will learn about the basics of Part D accruals, how future accrual amounts are estimated based on patterns in the data, and how bid assumptions versus actual results impact plan sponsor profitability. We will also discuss financial statement treatment of these items. Real-life examples from bids to outcomes will be provided to enhance the discussion. Ultimately, attendees will come away with a deeper understanding how their bid assumptions play out, and how they can use Part D accruals to plan for future bid development.

Description: The article provides a brief background on the issue of modeling non-guaranteed reinsurance under Life princple-based reserving and explores how temporary solutions are impacting insurers as well as the journey to a long-term solution

Description: discussion of the ongoing developments in reserving and risk-based capital RBC requirements for variable annuities including stochastic scenario projections