Description: This is a final report for a research project to create reference material that addresses the methods and techniques for quantifying margins for uncertainty in actuarial assumptions under a Principle-based statutory accounting framework.

Description: The Society's Task Force to Study Risk of Loss from Changes in the Interest Rate Environment C-3 Risk Task Force was formed in March 1981 with the charge to quantify C-3 risk. The Task Force made a preliminary report as part of a panel discussion on C-3 risk at the Society's October 1981 meeting in Atlanta. This presentation provides an update on the progress to date and its future plans.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This session focuses on implementation and regulatory interpretation issues.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Discusses individual disability income reserves and profit measures.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session talks about the Long-Term Care Insurance Valuation Task Force report.

Description: The paper sets forth a procedure, based on actual experience, for determining extra life insurance reserves for term insurance conversion rights for annual statement purposes. Followed by several submitted discussion papers.

Description: This paper discusses gain and loss analysis for group insurance under the following headings: Nomenclature and General Principles, Sources of Gain and Loss under Theoretical Conditions, Gains and Losses Arising in Practice, Comparison with Annual Statement Results and Effects of Changes in the Company's Dividend Formula. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: Presentation of some of the factors to be considered, and approaches which might be employed, in valuing a life insurance company.

Description: Provides an overview of the proposed regulations for calculating risk-based capital [RBC] C-3 Phase II and statutory reserves [VACARVM] on death- and living-benefit guarantees provided by variable annuities, and their status. Panelists also discuss the conceptual and practical considerations involved with mapping investment options to modeled funds, setting assumptions for revenue-sharing, mortality, and other prudent best-estimates, selecting model points and major design decisions, coordinating the required calculations, and handling the workload at year end along with documentation requirements. Session 25PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. A distinguished panel of experts and a host of interesting and timely questions regarding financial reporting and valuation actuaries.