Description: This presentation is an open forum, session number 44, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists respond to questions submitted prior to the session, as well as questions from participants during the session. A wide range of valuation questions are considered, including topics related to product tax and tax reserves, secondary guarantees, cash flow testing, and various statutory reserve issues.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this open forum questions were fielded by the panel of experts. Some of the questions: 1. How do you pick spreads for use in your reinvestment strategy? 2. What's generally being done in terms of dynamically modeling policyholder lapsation? 3. How do companies treat riders and dump-in premiums and estimated gross profits for GAAP? 4. What impact does the current interest environment have on testing you are going to do this year? 5. Are there any suitable techniques for trying to aggregate the variable products with the fixed products?

Description: Presenters discuss: [1] market-value accounting, [2] accounting for mortgage-backed securities [MBSs] and collateralized mortgage obligations [CMOs], [3] the emergence of earnings under FAS 60 and FAS 97 products, and [4] effectively communicating financial results to management. Session 10 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.