Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session is about joint ventures and private labeling for life, annuity and disability products. In a primary variation of private labeling, a manufacturer develops, underwrites, administers, and does the actuarial functions, but the client company markets the product. Other variations of joint ventures have different distributions of duties.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting presents viewpoints from actuaries, marketers and regulators on proposed regulation of policy illustration and nonforfeiture requirements. The forum examines the proposed Actuarial Standards Board ASB Standard for Sales Illustrations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: An exploration of drivers, cohorts and dynamics for policyholder behavior for VA and FIA based on industry experience data, including changes in recent years and the emergence of long-term data in key areas. We will also discuss critical elements to developing a sustainable and coherent framework to translate this complex experience data into assumption models.

Description: The academy generator is now a staple for actuarial practice. Initially confined to regulatory reserving, increasingly companies are using the AAA/SoA generator for a wider and wider range of applications which in some cases may be at the limits of what it was designed for. How is the AAA/SoA generator being applied in reserving, risk management and variable annuity lines of business? What are some of the challenges actuaries face in using this framework and what are the options for addressing them.

Description: The growing aging population presents unique challenges and opportunities, especially for the financial services industry. Presenters will explore the issues with particular focus on demographic challenges, such as age dependency ratios and implications for sovereign debt and public policy. They will also compare and contrast private sector offerings across the globe. In particular, as an example of a super-aging society, presenters will describe how Japanese insurers and pension funds tackle longevity risk.

Description: The SOA recently launched the Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program with the release of a new study on the economic impact of opioid abuse. In this session, results of this study will be presented along with insights and plans for the future of the Program.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a methodology for valuing annuity contracts based on the Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) approach.

Description: This article presents a discussion of Actuarial Guideline 54 (AG LIV), both the regulatory impetus in its creation as well as the requirements it outlines for a RILA contract to qualify as a variable annuity under the NAIC Variable Annuity Model law and thus be exempt from Fixed Annuity Non-Forfeiture Requirements. Includes an example calculation.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: Back by popular demand, it is that time of year for this well-liked annual webcast. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will be covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. 2021 has proven to have been quite remarkable, providing many important topics to be discussed.