Description: Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF VM-20 Subgroup activities and the Academy’s Life Reserve Working Group dealing with feedback from the VM-20 impact study.

Description: Feature article discussing the Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) recent exposure of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Valuation Manual.

Description: Summary of NAIC's Winter National Meeting

Description: Update on Principles-Based Reserving

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session about strengthening reserves based on cash-flow testing provided some practical solutions to reserve-strengthening issues using reinsurance and a look at the issue from a small company perspective.

Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

Description: This report summarizes a research project examining the proposed principle-based framework for reserves and capital for life insurance. The report is a review and analysis of case studies submitted by participating companies in response to proposed changes in individual life insurance statutory reserve and risk-based capital methodologies.

Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

Description: This article discusses issues with ties to principle-based valuation.

Description: Results of a company practice survey is presented. Among the areas to be addressed include the structure of accelerated underwriting programs, how programs are monitored, how accelerated underwritten business is performing relative to expectations, and how companies are considering accelerated underwriting cohorts in the context of VM-20 assumption setting.