Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss variable annuity reserving issues with respect to statutory, GAAP and tax. Methodologies and the effect of a proposed Standard of Practice are discussed.

Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues concerned with Life and Annuity Valuation, specifically meeting the 50 States Requirements, meeting the NAIC Actuarial Guidelines of valuation requirements, Guideline XXX and its implications and the use of new optional 15-year select factors to be applied to the 1980 CSO.

Description: This session is about the measurement and management of the risk of transfers by plan participants to and from alternative investment options within GICs sold to 401 k plans. Includes a discussion of the various types of GICs marketed.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session provides an update on current annuity financial reporting topics, including: status of annuity valuation law revisions and proposed Actuarial Guideline GGG.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium explores issues associated with Life and Annuity Valuation including the status of Guideline XXX and practical compliance issues.

Description: This session from the 1994 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers life and annuity valuation issues including an update on the Separate Accounts Technical Resource Group, Regulation XXX, a comparison of the unitary reserve method with the segmented reserve method, New York Regulation 147 and an update on the Annuity Nonforfeiture Technical Resource Group.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this practitioners' forum the participants discussed interest rate scenarios that are used in cash-flow testing, what projection results you look at to determine whether you have a good result or a bad result, the concept of just what is reserve adequacy, and what does it mean to say that reserves are adequate.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 The session provides a brief overview of a variety of financial reporting topics, most of which were discussed in more detail in the subsequent sessions. The overview included topical issues as follows: • National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force developments and directions • Other NAIC/regulatory development • American Academy of Actuaries AAA/Actuarial Standards Board ASB developments • Financial Accounting Standards Board/Security Exchange Commission FASB/SEC and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP developments • Tax developments • Reinsurance development • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act

Description: Luncheon speaker at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 discussed her role as a risk management specialist at the Office of Thrift Supervision

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.