Description: Reports on the Florida winter meeting of the NAIC’s Life and Health Actuarial Task Force, LHATF, regarding an agreement that was reached on an approach to be taken to reconstitute the Standard Valuation Law, SVL, applicable to life insurers.

Description: This paper presents specifications and formulas for determining life insurance policy reserves in compliance with Sections 5 and 8 of the NAIC model Standard Valuation Law as amplified by the NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation, also referred to as Regulation XXX.

Description: Provides an overview of SFAS 60, 91, 97, and 120 and the importance of U.S. GAAP for Asian insurance companies with a country by country analysis.

Description: This article is the abstract from a paper that provides methods and formulas for calculating active life reserves for credit insurance.

Description: The New 2001 CSO: Implications for Universal Life Plans

Description: Federal Tax Issues Under the 2001 CSO Mortality Tables

Description: Embedded Risk in Settlement Options on Older Life and Annuity Contracts

Description: This article discusses a number of product variations seen in the market with respect to Universal Life products with secondary death benefit guarantees, factors leading to those designs and considerations regarding the adequacy of reserves that emerge under AXXX formulas. This article also identifies a series of factors that authors believe will make it difficult to quickly and equitably resolve these issues through formula-based changes.

Description: This article discusses issues with ties to principle-based valuation.

Description: This report presents the 1980 CSO and 1980 CET Tables on an Age Last Birthday ALB basis. These tables were derived from the 1980 CSO Age Nearest Birthday ANB Tables with the cooperation of the Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.