Description: This presentation, session number 64PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists discuss the Society of Actuaries Life Experience Committee’s activities for the year 2000, and the retrospective analysis of X-factors and the role of reinsurers. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This article examines the changes in U.S. regulatory reserve and risk-based capital requirements that will significantly impact the insurance industry and practicing actuaries. It summarizes activity related to principles-based reserves and risk-based capital initiatives during 2005.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This discussion looks at recent developments and emerging issues with the NAIC.

Description: In Session 6 PD of the New Orleans Life Spring Meeting panelists discuss issues related to X-factor opinions as a result of regulation XXX. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 1.

Description: The NAIC Life Risk-Based Capital Working Group has been working on modifications to the C-3 interest rate risk component of the statutory risk-based capital formula. Changes being considered may have a significant impact on the work of the valuation actuary. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3. San Francisco Annual Meeting CA, October 17–20, 1999, Session 33PD.

Description: In 2005, the Life and Health Actuarial Task Force [LHATF] of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] requested that the actuarial professional bodies develop mortality tables for reserving that would better reflect the actual mortality of companies for the mortality of preferred risks underwritten in the marketplace today. Setting different levels of valuation mortality appropriate for preferred risks would largely address issues of reserve redundancy due to the assumption of mortality. This interim report covers the Data Validation, Underwriting Criteria, and Experience Analysis portions of this project.

Description: Presented at June 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about historical perspective on guaranty funds, recently activated state guaranty funds, what alternatives are available, what could cause the system to break down, and should guarantee funds exist.

Description: In session 132 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists discuss the content and status of the draft NAIC Actuarial Guideline ZZZ and the work of the AAA Task Force on Variable Products with Guaranteed Living Benefits. The Black-Scholes option pricing method is also covered. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Full version of The Life Actuary Newsletter, March 2004, Vol. 2, Issue No. 1.

Description: The life annuity mortality risk is the variation in actual financial experience of a group of annuitants from that expected, attributable to the mortality experience of the group. This paper investigated the mortality risk present in a single life annuity and determine the effect of age, sex, assumed interest rate, mortality table, and form of annuity on this risk. Then, it investigated the mortality risk in various portfolios of annuities. Followed by several discussion papers submitted