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: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. The panelists discussed the RBC formula treatment for health products for the life and the health organizations and the managed care organizations. They also covered what the health terms look like in the casualty RBC formula.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session discussed the work of the Modeling Subcommittee of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries Solvency Standards Committee. Resource materials were the Statement of Direction of the CIA Solvency Standards Committee and an illustrative report on solvency testing for a hypothetical insurance company.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this session the speaker described the modeling of the participating whole life division including the product description, modelling assumptions, operation of the model, and the results.

Description: This article discusses the adoption of the AICPA Statement of Position SOP 03-1 altering the way earnings emerge under FAS 97 and the impact of the enactment of SOX control requirements.

Description: This panel discussion is about claim reserves. It focused on: 1. Review of methods and statutory requirements in the establishment of claim reserves for property and casualty, life and health insurance. 2. Discussion of different approaches in casualty and life blanks e.g., incurred but not reported reserves.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion examined individual tax qualified products. Areas covered included: 1. Regulatory developments 2. Products being used 3. Effect of the current money market on product design 4. Assumptions 5. Results by market 6. Spousal IRA's

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 actuarial note is in the nature of an addendum to the paper describing the development of the Commissioners 1960 Standard Group Mortality Table and the 1961 Standard Group Life Insurance Premium Rates based thereon 'TSA, XIII, 586'. A comparison of Canadian to US mortality is made, with this data being used to develop minimum term premiums for Canada.

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?