Description: The report examines various benchmarks for analyzing option adjusted spreads of the major fixed income asset classes of life insurance companies.

Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. The discussion topics include: comparison of the new Canadian and U.S. convention blank annual statements whether there are any differences significant enough to cause undesirable lack of uniformity difficulties encountered in compiling the Canadian statement by line of business and geographic subdivision and problems which may be anticipated in the preparation of annual statements by reason of Regulation No. 33 of the New York Insurance Department.

Description: In session 148PD of the Washungton Annual Meeting the Panel discusses changes in current accounting practices and identifies issues that might directly impact actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Regulatory Update

Description: Panelists discuss compliance with the 1987 NAIC Convention Blank requirements regarding products with non-guaranteed elements [NGEs]. Discussion includes: [1] explanation of the new requirements, [2] results of a survey of actual responses to NGE interrogatories by companies in their statement filings, [3] actuaries' compliance-related questions to the American Academy of Actuaries Task Force on Non-guaranteed Elements, and [4] the use of NGEs in sales illustrations. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In December 1993, the NAIC adopted a risk-based capital formula for property and casualty insurers. This session is about the industry implications of the risk-based capital formula and model law.

Description: The NAIC Special Advisory Committee on the Standard Valuation Law presented proposals at the December 1988 NAIC meeting for implementing the valuation actuary concept into law. The proposals were contained in a preliminary report presented to the NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force, which appointed the Special Advisory Committee.

Description: Revisions to the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation by Keith A. Dall from The Financial Reporter, December 2002, Issue No. 51.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about reinsurance accounting for life and health insurers. It covers both statutory developments and GAAP developments. Topics included: 1. NAIC model regulation and some of the specific state issues. 2. FAS 113, reinsurance accounting under GAAP accounting principles. 3. Fronting issues. 4. Disclosure reporting. 5. The role of reinsurance as one of several financial and capital management solutions available to insurance companies. 6. Business applications that flow out of the current accounting developments

Description: Health insurance company assets and liabilities have evolved since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010. The ACA fundamentally rearranged how commercial health insurance is funded by integrating federal premium subsidies and pass-throughs together with a marketplace interwoven with transfer payments among stakeholders. The impacts of these programs can be seen in specific accounting items on the balance sheets of health insurance companies over the past 10 years. Their emergence follows three primary trends: (1) balance sheet items tend to be larger and take longer to settle, (2) there are more interactions among items, and (3) the final settlement amounts are more uncertain.