Description: 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, Los Angeles. This session discussed issues of particular interest to valuation actuaries in smaller insurance companies. Topics included: 1. Regulation XXX. 2. Actuarial Guidelines 33 and 34. 3. Illustration actuary. 4. Current regulatory proposals. 5. Proposed new Section 7 requirements. 6. C-3 RBC Based on Cash-Flow Testing. 7. Use of outside consultants.

Description: Panelists, which include the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency [OCC], discuss the regulatory issues and market opportunities relating to insurance companies as providers and banks as the vendors of insurance products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.