Description: From session 75CS at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999, Presenters identify issues and challenges faced by the valuation actuary when performing cash-flow testing on equity-indexed and variable products.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings that discusses additional or contract reserves on Exhibit 9.

Description: This session at the SOA 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting focuses on FAS 133, which defines accounting for derivatives, embedded options and hedging activities. Details of FAS 133 and implementation issues are discussed.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses different profitability or performance measures for insurance company lines of business, measurement on a statutory or GAAP basis and determining statutory surplus. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 2.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is a workshop on statutory, GAAP and tax issues for the valuation actuary. Various specific state regulations are discussed.

Description: Panelists discuss financial reporting issues confronting companies doing business in an multinational environment. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Issued in 2004 with provisions effective in 2006-2009, the United States accounting standard, GASB 45, requires local and state governments to account for their post-retirement medical and life insurance programs on an accrual basis for the first time. This standard is creating new demands for actuarial services. This article is written for the experienced private sector post-retirement medical plan actuaries with a strong FAS 106 background who are now working on GASB 45 valuations. For these actuaries, there are many similarities between a FAS 106 valuation and a GASB 45 valuation, but there are also many differences.

Description: 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings - Table of Contents

Description: Presented at April 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Financial reporting systems as a source of information for product development, Interaction of pricing actuary, valuation actuary, and investment officer in designing interest-sensitive products, Allocation impact on product development - expense, investment income, tax, and capital, Financial reporting information on changing premium rates for nonguaranteed premium products, Maintaining consistency between pricing and financial projection models, and Reserve basis impact on product development.

Description: This session takes a different approach than the similarly named session at the Spring 1988 Meeting. Here, panelists: [1] provide a 'Corporate Planning 101' background, [2] discuss planning surplus, and [3] discuss implementation challenges. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4A.