Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about FAS 97 including assumption setting, timing issues, unlocking of assumptions and restatement of unamortized acquisition costs, purchase accounting, and handling the EITF ruling.

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: 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: The 1997 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Session 16 examines valuation issues for equity-indexed products.

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 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: This forum presents the latest developments at the FASB, AICPA, NAIC, SEC, and Actuarial Standards Board ASB including the actuarial opinion memorandum 'AOM' and the standard valuation law. From the Record of the Society of Acturaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

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: 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: 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