Description: Recommendation for a set of improvement factors to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table

Description: Near the end of a pension plan's lifespan, after benefit accruals have ceased and the plan has reached fully funded status, a plan sponsor has the option to begin the plan termination process immediately or to maintain the plan for an extended period of time (often referred to as 'hibernation' as an alternative to termination). While immediate termination appeals to some plan sponsors, others choose hibernation for a number of reasons, including paternalism, fiduciary obligations, perceived cost differentials or simple inertia.

Description: 1962 SOA Regional Meetings, Jacksonville and Chicago. This is a discussion about statutory reporting issues surrounding group term and group accident and health insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 14 Pt. 2.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session examines how the revised version of the Valuation of Life Insurance Policies 'XXX' has been implemented in many states for two years and provides updates on various aspects of XXX.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Annual Meeting presents issues with the implementation of Regulation XXX including X-factor certification, development of an actuarial guideline for XXX, issues with certain policy designs, and UL products with prefunding of guarantees.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session about strengthening reserves based on cash-flow testing provided some practical solutions to reserve-strengthening issues using reinsurance and a look at the issue from a small company perspective.

Description: An observation is made regarding the impact interest rate scenarios have on VM-20 stochastic reserves.

Description: Discusses some of the new and different ideas being considered by the Wilcox Committee that is working on the Unified Valuation System, UVS, especially as they relate to smaller companies.

Description: This is an extensive, detailed, manual designed to implement Principles-Based Reserves. It includes an introduction, reserve requirements, actuarial opinion and report requirements, experience reporting requirements, and valuation manual minimum standards.

Description: This paper begins with an investigation of the conceptual profit model known as Anderson's formula, then it compares Anderson's formula with two alternative profit formulas and discusses some applications and limitations of each method. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.