Description: Discussion of the establishment of deferred tax assets or liabilities under Statutory codification

Description: Feature article about the transitioning of life insurance products to RBC C3 Phase III.

Description: How actuarial practices have benefited from lessons learned from accountants

Description: update on regulatory issues focusing on PBR

Description: This paper discusses adjustable life insurance and certain theoretical problems of these policies. It also covers how the Commissioners Reserve Valuation Method, CRVM, may be extended to cover adjustable life policies and defines formulas for the additional expense allowance at the time of change. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.

Description: This paper argues by means of a mathematical demonstration that: 1. Natural reserves are not appropriate for adjusting earnings of mutual life insurance companies under GAAP. 2. Adjusted earnings developed by using statutory net level premium reserves together with a nonadmitted asset equal to the present value of unamortized variable acquisition expenses, and, if material, possibly with the reserves for terminal dividends, should bc accepted under GAAP, provided that dividend scales are suitably designed. 3. Other approaches which are essentially equivalent to that in bullet #2, such as those involving historical asset share funds, should likewise be acceptable.

Description: These are three papers- - Government Pension Plans in Canada - This paper reviews the initial Act from 1952 which was a flat benefit plan and the impending changes to the program to incorporate a contributory earnings-related pension plan. - Current Status of Medicare Proposals - This report provides an update of the dozens of bills pending on the issue. - Relationship of Actuaries and Certified Public Accountants - This paper presents the issues facing insurance companies and accountants where their accounting practices are at variance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16, No. 45.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 Panel discussion of the work being done by the Society of Actuaries and the NAIC to further development of a Unified Valuation System.

Description: This session discussion is about tools, techniques, and methods used by the health valuation actuary HVA in dealing with business projections, cash-flow analysis, valuation on nonguaranteed premium business, target surplus analysis, reinsurance and claim reserves. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: Panelists consider the future environment of the valuation actuary in the U.S., the current environment in Canada and elsewhere, and the likely future methods of determining financial solvency in the U.S. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.