Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the challenge of how to regulate and account for the growing number of derivative products in the context of their multiple applications.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. Insurance regulators commissioned a task force to develop cash-flow variability measurement standards. This session presented the recommendations of that task force and the relationship to cash-flow testing. Topics included: 1. The regulatory need and how the process was approached. 2. The types of CMO variability that the standards attempt to address. 3. A description of the scenario selection process that's used in this model. 4. The prepayment assumptions and the method to be used to collect prepayment data. 5. The relationship to cash-flow testing. 6. The regulators' reactions.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. The panel discussed creative ways of carving up mortgage prepayment risk that have evolved from the collateralized mortgage obligation market.