Description: From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 29-30, 2001 Panel discussion overview of current risk-based capital RBC requirements of life insurers, as well as insight into topical issues and potential changes to RBC. Items covered include: • Recap of RBC law and RBC calculation rules • Tax impact on the factors • Common stock issue • C-3 testing • Proposed C-3 testing for Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefits VAGLB • Liquidity risk issue

Description: Update on recent changes made, and proposed new changes, to Asset Valuation Reserve, AVR, and Interest Maintenance Reserve, IMR.

Description: Panelists: [1] describe the goals, purposes, and current status of the Society of Actuaries' research into the credit risk of commercial mortgages and private-placement bonds, [2] describe the theory behind the new AVR and IMR and how they function, [3] describe their use from the valuation actuary’s perspective, and [4] discuss the potential impact the AVR/IMR may have on investing and accounting decisions. Session 11 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: Discusses the MSVR: its purpose, how it has [or has not] met its purpose – especially for a company invested in high-risk securities – how it will be affected by the proposed valuation-law changes, and how to treat it in the actuarial opinion required by New York Regulation 126. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.