Description: This presentation is a Teaching Session, number 4A, from the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The subject of the session is Regulation 126, effective for year end 1986 for all companies doing business in New York, which requires an actuarial opinion and memorandum with respect to the adequacy of the assets to support the liabilities for annuities, guaranteed investment products, and related products. The instructor discusses areas of concern from New York as a result of the first year of filings, including completeness, call and prepayment assumptions, default assumptions [sometimes zero], surrender assumptions [too low], failure to reflect taxes, poor communication between actuary and investment department, length of projections, varying yield curves, reflection of reinsurance, and the most common reason for rejecting the opinion: using starting assets greater than liabilities. Other problems were illustrated through examples, and changes to Regulation 126 were discussed.

Description: This session discussion is about annuities, surrender charges, expense management, asset management and market value adjustments. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3B.

Description: State insurance department actuary, who also is on two committees of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [NAIC], discusses current NAIC activities regarding nonforfeiture, sales illustrations, and replacements for life products and sales illustrations for annuities, as well as equity-indexed annuities [EIAs]. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss many developments over the year 1991 that impact the valuation actuary. Session 1 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the most current information on issues in the regulatory area that impact individual life and annuity products.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting presents an overview of equity-indexed product features and discusses related regulatory issues with respect to illustrations, nonforfeiture benefits and reserving.

Description: New York’s Regulation 126 effectively requires all companies doing business in New York to file an actuarial opinion and memorandum on their annuity and GIC business. This article attempts to answer 13 of the most commonly asked questions about this regulation.