Description: This 1978 discussion focused on individual annuities especially non-qualified single premium and flexible premium annuities. Areas covered include marketing problems, product design, reasons for popularity, tax characteristics, SEC investigation and NAIC Model Reg.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting addresses asset prepayments including emerging prepayment experience in the mortgage-backed - CMO security arena, special modeling considerations when addressing prepayments and the NAIC's FLUX model and the scenario and assumption specifications of that model. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting addresses the consequences of a contract or a group of contracts failing to comply with Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code and remedying failed contracts. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b. .

Description: 1996 VALUATION ACTUARY SYMPOSIUM. This session was an introduction to the symposium and provided commentary on activities in LHATFA.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this open forum questions were fielded by the panel of experts. Some of the questions: 1. How do you pick spreads for use in your reinvestment strategy? 2. What's generally being done in terms of dynamically modeling policyholder lapsation? 3. How do companies treat riders and dump-in premiums and estimated gross profits for GAAP? 4. What impact does the current interest environment have on testing you are going to do this year? 5. Are there any suitable techniques for trying to aggregate the variable products with the fixed products?

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses the problems and possible solutions arising from the matching or mismatching of assets and liabilities, including valuation and regulatory implications, in a Canadian and U.S. context. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This 1978 discussion focused on Individual Annuity experience and current events including: 1. Marketing issues 2. Actuarial issues 3. SEC study 4. FIT issues 5. Nonforfeiture issues 6. The Model Disclosure Bill.

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: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This individual annuity product update focused on a market overview, SEC developments, market value adjusted annuities, and the marketing of annuities through financial institutions.

Description: This 1978 presentation discusses the recommendation made by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants to move to a GAAP basis for reporting for life insurance companies. The primary purposes would be to report earnings on a going concern basis, rather than on a basis dominated by solvency considerations, and to promote improved comparability of reported financial results among companies.