Description: Presented at September 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Regulators discuss their expectations from the Actuarial Report based upon asset adequacy analysis.

Description: This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at a variety of valuation issues including the Unified Valuation System, codification, the actuarial opinion and memorandum, and several annuity and life insurance reserving issues.

Description: Join us for this popular annual webcast covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will discuss cash flow testing and this year’s New York and California holiday letters, the impact of recent interest rate changes including treatment of negative IMR, potential changes to statutory financial reporting due to climate change, and updates regarding Principle Based Reserves.

Description: This article talks about cash flow testing, a frequently used type of asset adequacy analysis required by the revisions to the Standard Value Law SVL. It describes how cash flow testing can be used to look at reserve adequacy in different interest rate environments or evaluate problems with certain assets.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 2PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists introduce major life and annuity statutory and GAAP valuation issues, which are covered in depth at subsequent sessions. There is also a brief update on activities of the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]. Statutory topics include the draft National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC] Actuarial Guideline MMMM for variable products with guaranteed living benefits, amendments to the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR], Regulation XXX mortality factors, and codification update, potential changes to the Standard Valuation Law, risk-based capital, and adoption of the 2001 CSO Mortality Table for valuation. GAAP topics include Statement of Financial Reporting Standards [SFAS] 133, 141, and 142, and two draft AICPA Statements of Position [SOP], one on nontraditional, long-duration products and another on internal replacements. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: This article reviews the results for the 1997 Society of Actuaries 1997 fiscal year.

Description: Summary of Part II of the survey of Appointed Actuaries, sponsored by the American Academy of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Financia1 Reporting and the Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Section, which asked appointed actuary various questions on methodology and assumptions employed for asset adequacy testing.

Description: This presentation, session number 6PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists discuss recent and potential developments in statutory reserving for annuity products, including reserves for variable annuities with guaranteed living benefits, NAIC Actuarial Guidelines 33, 34, and 35, new annuity valuation table update, proposed revisions to NAIC Actuarial Guideline 9-A on substandard annuity reserves, reserves for annuities linking returns to general account asset pools, reserves for guaranteed investment contracts with bailouts triggered by downgrades, changes to NAIC Model Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation, and unified valuation system update. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New York City Meeting focuses on current topics at the NAIC including life nonforfeiture law and actuarial guideline GGG and on actuarial standards in regard to financial reporting issues and current GAAP topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: Panelists – including a New York state insurance regulator, an insurance-company qualified actuary, and a consulting actuary – discuss initial results from the NY filings for 1986 and 1987, the challenges complying with Reg 126, and what companies have learned so far from it. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.