Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers recoverability and loss recognition including using cash flow testing to determine loss recognition or recoverability, actuarial standard of practice 14, and valuation work by line of business or issue-year groups.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists discussed product design of Equity Indexed products, interest crediting strategies, investment risks, hedging issues, and internal controls and risk management for companies getting started in the derivatives market.

Description: This article presents how one may find real solutions to polynomial equations by using tabulated data of the accumulated value of annuities-certain. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991 VOL. 2.

Description: Report includes a special study of the mortality experience of retirements under contingent annuitant options in addition to the regular matured life study that has been presented in prior years.

Description: This report gives the 1967 through 1971 mortality experience of twenty-one large life insurance companies under individual immediate annuities issued in the United States and Canada during the years 1931 through 1970, inclusive.

Description: Throughout this session, the presenters will focus on tax rules pertaining to life and annuities, highlighting the recent changes to interest rates under Internal Revenue Code Section 7702 which determines whether a contract qualifies as a life insurance contract. In addition, recent annuity changes will be discussed such as required minimum distributions. Background and examples will be provided on the cash value accumulation test, the guideline premium requirements and the cash value corridor rules under 7702.

Description: Historically different approaches have been used by actuaries in modeling mortality improvement. The SOA has recently released a framework that practitioners can use to project mortality improvement, providing methodological consistency across a range of applications.

Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.