Description: The article describes how the Smaller Insurance Company Section's Principle-Based Reserves Team is planning to provide information and guidance about principle-based reserves.

Description: This article discusses the reservations small companies may have about the Principles Based Valuation proposal. Instead of prescribed methods, assumptions, and tables for statutory reserves, they would be computed based on actuarial judgment in accordance with standards of practice. of practice.

Description: Update on new mortality tables in development - 2012 IAR, 2014 VBT, and SI/GI/Preneed

Description: Building on the Part 1 article, Introduction to the Representative Scenarios Method, this article describes testing the methodology with respect to four product types, fixed indexed annuities with GLIBs, level term life insurance, universal life with secondary guarantees, and variable annuities with GLWBs. This Part 2 article describes testing results, refinements to the RSM methodology, and next steps.

Description: Summarizes results of PBR survey of regulators by the Valuation Law and Manual Team, VLMT, of the Life Reserves Working Group, LRWG. Did not say what regulators were surveyed.