Description: This article helps companies better understand the currently proposed upcoming VM-22 regulation by comparing the VM-22 measurement model to LDTI MRBs. The article highlights key considerations as companies plan for adoption of these two measurement models. These considerations should help inform a company’s strategy related to the business impacted by these standards.

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: Recommendation for a set of improvement factors to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Single premium deferred annuity, Flexible premium annuity, Universal life, Vanishing premium life, Indexed products, Variable products, Reinsurance.

Description: Near the end of a pension plan's lifespan, after benefit accruals have ceased and the plan has reached fully funded status, a plan sponsor has the option to begin the plan termination process immediately or to maintain the plan for an extended period of time (often referred to as 'hibernation' as an alternative to termination). While immediate termination appeals to some plan sponsors, others choose hibernation for a number of reasons, including paternalism, fiduciary obligations, perceived cost differentials or simple inertia.

Description: This presentation was session number 32PD at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. This session provides an overview of recent and potential developments and future developments in statutory reserving for life insurance products. Topics include Regulation XXX, variable and equity-indexed universal life reserves, state variations, tax considerations, offshore reinsurance, unified valuation systems, American Academy of Actuaries Extended Maturity Option Work Group developments, Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum revisions, new Commissioners' Standard Ordinary mortality tables, and trends in valuation interest rates and the Applicable Federal Interest Rates. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This article discusses the project to develop a new Credit Life Insurance valuation standard.

Description: The 2020 edition of the Valuation Manual permits mortality data aggregation thereby enhancing credibility but also has accompanying requirements and addresses calculation of company experience rates.

Description: This article summarizes the key changes to VM-31 requirements in the 2020 version of the Valuation Manual for both life and variable annuities, and compares and contrasts the requirements for each. In addition, the article offers insights into common issues and recommendations for VM-31 reports from the viewpoints of a regulator, consultant, and company actuary.

Description: This paper discusses adjustable life insurance and certain theoretical problems of these policies. It also covers how the Commissioners Reserve Valuation Method, CRVM, may be extended to cover adjustable life policies and defines formulas for the additional expense allowance at the time of change. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979, Vol. 31.