Description: In session 70PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss tax, statutory, and GAAP accounting issues relating to equity-indexed annuities EIAs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session addressed the new risk-based capital requirement. Topics included: 1. How reasonable is the framework of basing the formulas on simplistic application of the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 risks? 2. Will this be effective in stanching the proliferation of RBC formulas by the regulatory bodies? 3. Which lines of business are treated relatively badly by the formulas? 4. Is there realistically anything that can be done to prevent company comparisons and renkings? 5. What are the administrative problems faced by the regulators in the oversight process requirement that this will create?

Description: 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 3 looks at considerations in strengthening reserves as a result of cash flow testing results.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] the tax implication of NAIC changes to reserving requirements, [2] the new NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation [Reg. XXX], [3] Actuarial Guideline 33 [AG 33], [4] AG 34, and [5] highlights of an actual IRS audit involving these NAIC actuarial guidelines and regulations. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Topics discussed in this session on GAAP and purchase GAAP included: 1. FAS 115, so-called actuarial or SEC adjustments, and how practice has been evolving in that area. 2. How companies determine the gross margins for mutual GAAP products and the traditional participating business of mutual companies. 3. Mutual company GAAP. 4. Basics of purchase accounting.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about mutual company GAAP including defining what GAAP means for mutual companies, contrasting it with stock company GAAP, and discussing implementation issues. Alternative Minimum Tax is also discussed.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1968 Philadephia and Los Angeles Regional Meetings covers adjusted earnings for insurance companies including definition, how it is used, and approaches for different lines of business.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews recent U.S. regulatory and tax developments, U.S. product taxation issues including corporate-owned life insurance COLI and certificate of deposit CD annuities and a summary of recent Canadian income tax developments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at mutual company GAAP issues including objectives, common features, comparison to stock company GAAP, and the effect on management of the company.