Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This 1992 session on the Statutory Valuation Opinion covered the following topics: 1. Regulatory issues and the amendments to the standard valuation law. 2. Practical considerations, such as accumulating data, setting assumptions and creating models. 3. Issues and considerations involved in cash-flow testing.

Description: This article discusses the the 1998 alternartive XXX model regulations and the potential tax impact on the definition of life insurance and on reserve deductions associated therewith.

Description: One of the significant tax benefits of a life insurance contract is that, for purposes of determining the taxable amount of proceeds received under the contract on distributions or surrender,the investment in the contract includes the aggregate amount of premiums, unreduced by the cost of insurance provided IRC section 72c. IRS rules net surrender value reserves must be reduced by a YRT reserve credit.

Description: Institutional investors such as pension plans and insurance companies have enjoyed strong equity returns for a length of time with few historical precedents. Nearly a decade after the end of the financial crisis, strategies to provide downside protection remain expensive and the performance of traditional risk-managed funds has disappointed investors.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' paper by Sternhell.

Description: Setting the X Factor Percentile— Commentary by G. Thomas Mitchell from The Financial Reporter, October 1999, Issue No. 40.

Description: The current drafts of the principle-based reserves PBR model law and accompanying regulations appear to include credit life insurance within the scope. It is expected that once the scope of PBR is expanded to include accident and health insurance, credit disability will fall within its scope as well. This article describes how will this affect credit actuaries.

Description: This paper concisely presents formulas for calculating reserves with different mortality tables as well as formulas to relate reserves at different interest rates.

Description: Interplay of §807(f) and the stat cap in §807(d) as there continues to be uncertainty as to whether a change to the stat reserve could be subject to §807(f).

Description: This is an Excel spreadsheet that lists the 2001 CSO and 2001 VBT tables for various combinations of super preferred, preferred, and residual standard, for females and males, for smokers and non-smokers, and for ANB and ALB.