Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Number 42, June 2000.

Description: Provides an overview of the proposed regulations for calculating risk-based capital [RBC] C-3 Phase II and statutory reserves [VACARVM] on death- and living-benefit guarantees provided by variable annuities, and their status. Panelists also discuss the conceptual and practical considerations involved with mapping investment options to modeled funds, setting assumptions for revenue-sharing, mortality, and other prudent best-estimates, selecting model points and major design decisions, coordinating the required calculations, and handling the workload at year end along with documentation requirements. Session 25PD of the 2005 Valuation Actuary Symposium.