Description: This session 15 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting includes an update on specific approaches adopted by Canadian insurers and regulators to deal with capital guarantees on segregated fund products, capital modeling in the Canadian banking industry, and emerging issues using these techniques in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session

Description: This article talks about cash flow testing, a frequently used type of asset adequacy analysis required by the revisions to the Standard Value Law SVL. It describes how cash flow testing can be used to look at reserve adequacy in different interest rate environments or evaluate problems with certain assets.