Description: This article provides a summary of selected sessions of the October 2010 NAIC meeting.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 A discussion of liquidity management for life insurance companies marketing institutional clients, in particular with respect to GIC contracts and Funding agreements. Topics included: · What happened at General American with their defaults on funding agreements. Why did the regulators and rating agencies miss the problems? · What was the impact of reinsurance? · What is the effect of adding institutional business such as putable funding agreements on liquidity management? · Are there prudent levels of this business that can be beneficial? · What is the effect of funding agreements with downgrade provisions on liquidity risks, and do such provisions create a preference for sophisticated institutional contract holders?

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussion is about cash-flow testing as a management tool. Topics covered included: 1. Was the year-end process useful or a necessary evil? 2. How realistic were the assumptions used? 3. How much was pure guesswork? 4. What were the lessons learned from the exercise?

Description: This presentation, session number 6PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists discuss recent and potential developments in statutory reserving for annuity products, including reserves for variable annuities with guaranteed living benefits, NAIC Actuarial Guidelines 33, 34, and 35, new annuity valuation table update, proposed revisions to NAIC Actuarial Guideline 9-A on substandard annuity reserves, reserves for annuities linking returns to general account asset pools, reserves for guaranteed investment contracts with bailouts triggered by downgrades, changes to NAIC Model Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation, and unified valuation system update. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: From the 1986 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Washington DC in October 1986 Discussion of emerging practice and regulations of the NAIC and New York Insurance Department with respect to requirements placed on the methods and assumptions used by the valuation actuary in producing the support for the Actuarial Opinion as to the adequacy of reserves for life insurance companies

Description: Presented at 1995 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Presents updates from the NAIC and its Life & Health Actuarial Task Force, and the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline.

Description: Discussion of events of a the June 2009 NAIC/LHATF meeting.

Description: 1996 VALUATION ACTUARY SYMPOSIUM. This session was an introduction to the symposium and provided commentary on activities in LHATFA.

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: Update on the proceedings of the March 2010 NAIC meeting.