Description: In session 4 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the complexities and timing issues involved in determining an earned interest rate. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about asset segmentation, i.e. segmenting assets among lines of business or liabilities, and how this enhances asset/liability mangement.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about annual reports and financial statements. In particular, how to study and analyze a financial statement, how they are prepared, how to use them, and how to analyze what is going on with the company.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session on sources of earnings, the panelists discusses implementation of SOE reporting, use of SOE as a management tool, why having SOE reporting is particularly useful for international operations, and SOE reporting from a reinsurance perspective.

Description: This discussion focuses on two question: First, How are the annual statement items such as reserves, dividends, insurance in force, etc developed and organized. Second, what new or unusual methods of calculating reserves, net premiums, and expected mortality have been developed through the use of computers?

Description: This 1978 panel discussion was on new actuarial standards for in Canada. Topics covered included: 1. The flexibility afforded the Canadian Valuation Actuary under the new Insurance Acts. 2. A comparison to the current GAAP and statutory reporting requirements in the U.S. and to the reporting requirements in the United Kingdom.

Description: This article looks at the purpose of the closed block, how it works, what some of the drawbacks are, the implementation of the concept and if there are any preferable alternatives to the closed block. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: This is an addendum to the Modern Deterministic Scenarios for Interest Rate Paper.

Description: In the United States, there has been much industry discussion of the challenges associated with a sustained low interest rate environment, which impacts both the asset and liability sides of the balance sheet in unfavorable ways. The intent of this article is not to focus on these strategic issues. Rather, we attempt to shine a spotlight on some of the modeling challenges that practicing actuaries may experience when incorporating negative interest rates into their models.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various aspects of life insurance accounting including the Mandatory Securities Valuation Reserve, accounting adjustments when registering with the SEC, GAAP for non-admitted assets, reserve conservatism, and tax liabilities.