Description: 2003 Valuation Actuary Symposium, San Diego, CA. This session covered the practical aspects of implementing the Statement of Position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional long-duration contracts and for separate accounts. Specific items include SA reporting, multiple account value products, guaranteed minimum death and living benefit reserves and sales inducements

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadelphia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings focuses on federal income tax questions including recent rulings, company organization around tax work, the role of actuaries, and Canadian developments.

Description: These discussions at the 1967 New York and New Orleans Regional Meetings are about methods of allocating investment income using the investment year method and the treatment of unrealized capital gains.

Description: This discussion at the 1967 Annual Meeting is about the appropriate level of unassigned surplus and the rationale and accounting for contingency reserves. The question of a contingency reserve for Phase III tax is also discussed.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting is about value-added accounting in an international context and how it is applied and used by multi-national companies in various parts of the world.

Description: From the Record 1991 Vol. 17, No. 1, this is the keynote presentation from the Society of Actuaries 1991 Regional Meeting, held in New Orleans April 18-19. The speakers discuss the increasing importance of the asset side of the balance sheet in looking at the reserves and overall solvency of a life insurance company, and the outlook for an increase in responsibilities and liabilities for the actuary in the 90s.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session is about SFAS 97 which is fundamentally focused on the gross profit stream of products like universal life and deferred annuities. Topics included: 1. Assumption setting with view to tracking and verification. 2. Level of detail and differentiation between products and cells. 3. Timing issues - model versus financial reporting. 4. Unlocking.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session provided an update on the appointed actuary. Topics included: 1. Provided preliminary results of a 1992 cash-flow-testing survey that was sent to a number of life companies in the U.S. 2. A discussion of the position taken by one actuary who did not do cash-flow testing in forming an opinion for his company's 1992 annual statement. 3. How to deal with failed scenarios. 4. The evolution of the appointed actuary's role at MetLife. 5. How the process currently works at MetLife. 6. Insights on where MetLife sees the process going.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about the impact of RBC on product design. Topics included: 1. An overview of the regulatory aspects of RBC. 2. How to incorporate RBC into the pricing of insurance products. 3. The small company perspective 4. The application of marginal RBC analysis. 5. A preliminary analysis on RBC covariance between product lines.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting covers recent developments in the U.S. Topics include FASB and AICPA pronouncements such as FAS 115, GAAP for mutuals, and performance measurement and other uses of GAAP financial statements. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4a.