Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session about strengthening reserves based on cash-flow testing provided some practical solutions to reserve-strengthening issues using reinsurance and a look at the issue from a small company perspective.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on AIDS including an update on the epidemic and discussion about the actuarial implication of four case studies.

Description: Illustrates key differences, in earnings for a segment of term insurance, between current GAAP standards and GAAP targeted improvements (based on tentative board decisions preceding the release of an exposure draft).

Description: In-depth discussion about HIV and AIDS: [1] mortality-study results, [2] risk-classification challenges, including regulatory issues, [3] mortality-projection methods, [4] significant pricing and valuation – STAT and GAAP – information, and [5] overall industry implications. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1991 Toronto Spring Meeting give an overview of Regulation XXX including its effect on product design, proposed actuarial guidelines, 2001 CSO, X-factor analysis and reinsurance issues.

Description: July 2019 issue of Small Talk by the Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, and section activities.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting covers XXX reserves for term insurance and UL from the ceding company and reinsurer standpoint, X-factor classes, the 2001 CSO and securitization and accessing capital markets for solutions for reserves and capital requirments of XXX. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss level term insurance, preferred risk underwriting, and the impact of proposed NAIC Actuarial Guideline XXX on statutory reserves. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: Regulators observed a wide range of practice from early adopters of PBR in regard to the treatment of non-guaranteed reinsurance and adopted a formulaic solution on an interim basis for the 2020 Valuation Manual. A field test, supplemented with additional analysis performed using a model-office approach with representative models, is being performed over the first half of 2020 to inform regulators as they select a longer-term solution. This session will provide an update on this important issue as well as perspectives on how the resolution of this issue was approached and lessons learned for the future from those intimately involved in this work.

Description: Dialogue between Peter Winslow, a tax attorney, and Edward Robbins and Christian DesRochers, tax actuaries, on selected tax issues related to proposals to change statutory reserving from a formula-based methodology to a principles-based approach.