Description: The panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss recent GAAP activities including new Standards of Practice for new nontraditional products and internal replacements. Developments at the FASB and SEC are also discussed.

Description: This discussion at the 1968 Annual Meeting covers various aspects of life insurance accounting including the Mandatory Securities Valuation Reserve, accounting adjustments when registering with the SEC, GAAP for non-admitted assets, reserve conservatism, and tax liabilities.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting focuses on the connection between the pricing function and financial reporting, communicating financial information to senior management and asset/liability management.

Description: This panel discussion looks at new pricing techniques including the use of risk theory, pricing for the entire rate book, and the handling of overhead expenses. There is also a discussion of setting assumptions and the sources of data for assumptions.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 Dallas Regional Meeting is about current issues in individual disability income market, including underwriting, claim control, product design, sales tactic, management reports, reinsurance and closed block strategies.

Description: Regulatory change and increased focus on internal risk management are driving a renewed interest in model efficiency. In this session, we will review several new and existing tools, that show significant promise for advanced modeling of equity linked products. These include: • Clustering • Use of unique--and potentially a different number of--scenarios for each policy • Semi Monte Carlo (SMC) – this is a proprietary technique that is similar to a combination of Monte Carlo and numeric integration • Using a neural network approach to optimize some of the more complex and manual aspects of clustering and improve the fit of the clustered model • Combining SMC with the use of unique scenarios per policy

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists provided background about the Unified Valuation Law model, how we got here, what's going on today in 1998, and what we can look for in the future.

Description: This discussion at a 1967 Regional Meeting is about methods of allocating investment income using the investment year method, the treatment of unrealized capital gains, considerations in choosing interest assumptions, and challenges presented when comparing investment yields among companies.

Description: This panel discussion is about the basic concepts of non-participating life products with non-guaranteed or ideterminate premiums. Various issues around pricing, product design, reserving, regulatory approval and taxes are discussed.

Description: Panelists at this session of the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss recent developments in the area of fair-value financial reporting including recent FASB and IASB developments, international accounting standards, issues yet to be resolved and different approaches to valuing liabilities.