Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Panelists use recent transactions and examples to demonstrate various operational, financial reporting and strategic aspects of insurance company mergers.

Description: For establishing the ongoing adequacy of claim reserves for blocks of long-term care insurance, retro testing is a blunt tool, the results of which are not conclusive. Claim reserve retro tests should be reviewed by claim duration, include the impact of interest consistently, and include updated assumptions that can have an impact on claim termination rates or other factors. The new NAIC LTC Experience Reporting Forms estimated to arrive for reporting year 2008 will help modernize LTCI retro tests, providing additional accuracy and standardization. Actuaries should not wait for these forms, but rather ensure that any claim reserve analysis moves beyond a basic calendar year retro test.

Description: Experts discuss: [1] recent life-insurer M&A transactions, [2] the seller's perspective, including their motivation and their actuarial appraisal of the book of business, [3] the buyer's perspective, including their motivation and their actuarial appraisal, [4] due diligence, [5] Purchase GAAP [PGAAP], [6] issues that arise at or after the transaction's closing, and [7] reinsurance and non-reinsurance programs that address capital-management and tax-planning needs for such a transaction. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Introduction to the purposes and roles of “Lifric”, an acronym for the American Academy of Actuaries working group, Life Financial Reporting Committee

Description: Panel discussion about GAAP and FASB considerations, and statutory accounting issues. From the 1978 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 2.