Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session focuses on implementation and regulatory interpretation issues.

Description: This presentation is from session number 2, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. They provide updates on the Unified Valuation Law [UVL] Task Force, equity-indexed products [including NAIC actuarial guidelines ZZZ and ZZZZ], NAIC actuarial guidelines XXXIII and XXXIV, variable annuity guaranteed living benefits VAGLB, the NAIC Model Regulation for Group Annuity Separate Accounts, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] revisions, and other current topics.

Description: Obituary dedicated to the life and times of Neil A. Parmenter.

Description: Recap of the U.S. GAAP seminar in Hong Kong including principles of GAAP, expenses, product classification, non-par products (life and health), par products, fund-based products, payout annuities, investment contracts, investment accounting, shadow accounts, internal replacements, purchase accounting, reinsurance accounting, SoP 03-1, SoP 05-1

Description: This article highlights the two days the Republic of China Delegates spent in the Chicago area meeting with Actuaries in Chicago.

Description: This article is a recap of three international actuarial meetings that were held back-to-back-to-back in March 2010.

Description: The author is an American actuary who was invited to Fudan University in Shanghai to give a few lectures. This article discusses his lectures and the discussions he had with the students.

Description: This newsletter contains several articles: The Institute of Actuaries of Japan thanks the SOA Malaysia updates on RBC An update on the SOA international experience survey regulations changing in Bermuda, and An update from the Swedish Actuarial Society Aktuarieforeningen.

Description: Panelists give an assessment of the current term market, and then cover statutory, GAAP, and tax reserves. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 2PD, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The panelists provide an overview of current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products, to be covered in-depth at subsequent sessions. Topics include: new valuation table for life insurance NAIC Actuarial Guidelines [AG] for variable product guaranteed living benefits and for equity-indexed universal life [ZZZZ] amendments to the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] progress on Unified Valuation System [UVS] Model Regulations on Separate Accounts Funding Group Contracts with Guarantees, and on Synthetic Guaranteed Investment Contracts [GICs] regulatory concern over liquidity and Regulation XXX mortality X factors.