Description: Noting that the Commissioners Annuity Reserve Method has been adopted by almost all states in the past four years as the basis for valuing individual account annuities in statutory statements, the author reviews this reserve method and how the various provisions commonly included in modern deferred annuity policies should be reserved to be consistent with its methodology. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1982 Volume 34.

Description: This paper discusses future projections of operations for both new and existing companies. The author proposes and discusses 3 basic methods - model office, analysis of operations and an 'overall method. The model office, being the most detailed, delves into how to approach each major item in the summary of operations.

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meetings, Jacksonville and Chicago. This is a discussion about statutory reporting issues surrounding group term and group accident and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2.

Description: Discusses the need for a new life insurance valuation mortality table to replace the 1941 CSO, the authorization by the NAIC to form a committee to construct such a table, and the preliminary table developed.

Description: This discussion forum reviews problems of concern to small companies in preparing the new form of annual statement and if the comparisons of expenses, interest rates and other items among companies of like size are now more meaningful.

Description: In this paper, the author examines the valuation of life insurance company assets giving a rationale for a valuation basis for each type of asset. The stabilization of asset values is stated as being 'highly desirable'. Several discussants of the paper disagree strongly with the author's views.

Description: Discusses revenue accounting, use of budgets, automating annual statement work, and reserve calculations for interim statements.

Description: This session at the SOA 1962 Jacksonville and Chicago Regional Meetings discussed the investment year method. Considerations with respect to taxes, capital gains and line of business other than group annuity were discussed.

Description: This discussion covered: 1. The extent to which companies' net earned interest rates have risen above their low points from that of several years ago and 2. The NAICs' new method of dividing amortizable bonds into two classes in the valuation of securities

Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. The discussion topics include: comparison of the new Canadian and U.S. convention blank annual statements whether there are any differences significant enough to cause undesirable lack of uniformity difficulties encountered in compiling the Canadian statement by line of business and geographic subdivision and problems which may be anticipated in the preparation of annual statements by reason of Regulation No. 33 of the New York Insurance Department.