Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: Join us for this popular annual webcast covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will discuss cash flow testing and this year’s New York and California holiday letters, the impact of recent interest rate changes including treatment of negative IMR, potential changes to statutory financial reporting due to climate change, and updates regarding Principle Based Reserves.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session, the presenter offered her opinion that, while time consuming and burdensome, the results obtained from testing associated with Regulation 126 are worthwhile.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! March 2006, Issue No. 64.

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.

Description: This session 15 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting includes an update on specific approaches adopted by Canadian insurers and regulators to deal with capital guarantees on segregated fund products, capital modeling in the Canadian banking industry, and emerging issues using these techniques in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session

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: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers an update on the current status of the proposed new standard non-forfeiture law for life insurance. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.

Description: Join us for this popular annual webcast covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will discuss cash flow testing and this year’s New York and California holiday letters, the impact of recent interest rate changes including treatment of negative IMR, potential changes to statutory financial reporting due to climate change, and updates regarding Principle Based Reserves.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents an overview of equity-indexed product features and discusses related regulatory issues with respect to illustrations, nonforfeiture benefits and reserving.