Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The speakers provided an overview of the GAAP accounting prior to SFAS 133, an example of that guidance and how the accounting works, the new GAAP guidance, the new SFAS 133, and deferred acquisition cost considerations for equity-indexed annuities.

Description: Discusses how AG 34 provides a clarification of CARVM for variable annuities with MGDB’s.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this teaching session on Equity-Indexed Annuities, the panelists discussed the background and techniques of the NAIC's Guideline ZZZ, what must be done, the market-value-based methods, the book-value method, and ideas regarding making the best overall choice among the methods.