Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed different accounting alternatives for products such as Universal Life, deferred annuities, variable products.

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Definition of good and sufficient provision for unpaid and actuarial liabilities as used in the NAIC model bill, Actuary and auditor relationships in documentation, reasonableness of results, materiality, margins, and disclosure, Techniques for estimating unpaid claim liabilities, Reverse testing, Considerations regarding incurred date coding in establishing claim reserves, Reserving methodologies for alternative funding products, Reserves for catastrophic claims, Measurement, evaluation, and adjustment for claim department backlogs, changes in claim submission patterns, and environmental changes, etc.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Tax change, Product line allocation, Stock and mutual company considerations, Generally accepted accounting principles deferred taxes, Accounting for life/life and life/nonlife tax consolidations, Tax sharing agreements among affiliated companies, Reinsurance agreement impact, Conflicts between tax planning and solvency considerations.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about need for internal management reporting on a GAAP-like basis in mutual companies, difficulties in adapting stock GAAP accounting to traditional, participating product lines, need for consistency with pricing/dividend practices, and alternative accounting models - a review of theoretical work and computer modelling of several accounting alternatives.

Description: The presenters will provide an overview of the current life insurance M&A landscape, along with insight on leading practices and lessons learned in the deal and merger integration processes.Topics include:M&A market update: recent M&A deal trends in the life insurance industry in the United States and globally; drivers and motives for buyers and sellers in the current environment; and outlook on the future M&A market for life insurersDeal process: key considerations and leading practices at each stage of the deal processLesson learned: a retrospective look at one or more case studies - key challenges and success stories

Description: This presentation is from session number 2, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. They provide updates on the Unified Valuation Law [UVL] Task Force, equity-indexed products [including NAIC actuarial guidelines ZZZ and ZZZZ], NAIC actuarial guidelines XXXIII and XXXIV, variable annuity guaranteed living benefits VAGLB, the NAIC Model Regulation for Group Annuity Separate Accounts, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] revisions, and other current topics.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 This session talks about the issues that smaller companies deal with. Topics included: • Section 7 opinions —changing cash-flow testing requirements • C-3 risk-based capital requirements and methodologies • Setting and resetting X factors for Regulation XXX • Developing internal management systems • Regulatory update • Using outside consultants

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session explored the process of marking liabilities to market. Topics included: 1. A summary of the FAS 115 requirements. 2. The ACADEMY TASK FORCE ON FAIR VALUE OF LIABILITIES. 3. APPRAISAL METHODS SUBGROUP - FOUR APPROACHES TO FAIR VALUING LIABILITIES. 4. THE PROBLEM OF MARKING LIABILITIES TO MARKET. 5. FOUR APPROACHES TO DISCOUNTING LIABILITY CASH FLOWS.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provides a brief overview and status of a variety of recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners statutory financial reporting developments.

Description: From a session at the Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Antonio, Texas, June 14-15, 2004 Speakers discuss the approaches to quantifying investment risk, including the credit risk subcomponent and mismatch risk sub-component in the three different types of risk-based capital RBC framework commonly used, such as regulatory, rating agency and company-specific economic-based formulas.