Description: This presentation is from session number 2, presented at the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. They provide updates on the Unified Valuation Law [UVL] Task Force, equity-indexed products [including NAIC actuarial guidelines ZZZ and ZZZZ], NAIC actuarial guidelines XXXIII and XXXIV, variable annuity guaranteed living benefits VAGLB, the NAIC Model Regulation for Group Annuity Separate Accounts, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] revisions, and other current topics.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panel examined the current efforts of several organizations to craft the next century's insurance valuation framework, and how these efforts are reshaping the way we will do business in the future.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 7PD, from the 1999 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 23-24 in Los Angeles. The panelists discuss how in practice there is considerable variation from company to company in the functions that fall within the corporate actuary’s role. They discuss variations in corporate actuarial functions, and corporate actuaries’ role in their company’s management structure. The panelists explore trends in the role of the corporate actuary, and what makes for an effective corporate actuarial function. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss the American Academy of Actuaries research on valuation and insurance in 14 countries in light of the movement of the NAIC toward a new valuation law.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 2PD, from the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 14-15 in Washington, DC. The panelists provide an overview of current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products, to be covered in-depth at subsequent sessions. Topics include: new valuation table for life insurance NAIC Actuarial Guidelines [AG] for variable product guaranteed living benefits and for equity-indexed universal life [ZZZZ] amendments to the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation [AOMR] progress on Unified Valuation System [UVS] Model Regulations on Separate Accounts Funding Group Contracts with Guarantees, and on Synthetic Guaranteed Investment Contracts [GICs] regulatory concern over liquidity and Regulation XXX mortality X factors.

Description: At this session 4PD of the SOA Annual Meeting in New York the panel discusses issues stemming from an AAA study of valuation and insurance in 14 countries on 5 continents, and what the U.S. could learn from these findings. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: In session 117 PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss the status of a study regarding the current valuation methodologies applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance, as well as the legal and regulatory mechanisms through which they are implemented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.