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: Panelists in this session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss current embedded value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between embedded value and fair value, and benefits and drawbacks of embedded value, fair value and other measurement systems for internal management purposes.

Description: Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting. This session covers the current status of FAS 133 and extensions such as the proposed statement of position on accounting and reporting by insurance enterprises for certain nontraditional, long-duration contracts and for separate accounts.

Description: This session 30 PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting discusses how several organizations, with representation from a number of countries, are currently drafting new standards to create uniformity across nations. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3.

Description: An outline of a teaching session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000, discussing the evolution toward fair value accounting methodologies

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 Panel discussion of the work being done by the Society of Actuaries and the NAIC to further development of a Unified Valuation System.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting looks at the fair value of liabilities focusing on financial measurement, FASB 115, implications of various methods and a status update. Case studies comparing statutory, GAAP and fair value results are discussed.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. This session presents an overview of the SOA cosponsored conference on fair value of insurance liabilities, including a comparison of some of the methods presented. The session also provides a status update of recent industry and professional activities and what the future may hold for the use of fair value of insurance liabilities in insurance company financial statements.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session provided overviews of the history of MVA, statement of financial accounting standards documents that pertain to this issue, and implementation issues. The liability methodologies and latest developments were also covered.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about market-value accounting including FAS 107 and FAS 115, calculation methods for fair value of liabilities, practice in other industries, practices in other countries and latest developments.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that the regulatory authorities have been talking about the need to modify GAAP and statutory balance sheets to more closely reflect market values, with most of the focus on the market value of assets, the panelists discuss current regulatory thinking, including with respect to disclosures, problems associated with looking only at assets [and not liabilities], practical implications, and use of results as a management tool. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.