Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: This presentation is a Teaching Session, number 4A, from the 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The subject of the session is Regulation 126, effective for year end 1986 for all companies doing business in New York, which requires an actuarial opinion and memorandum with respect to the adequacy of the assets to support the liabilities for annuities, guaranteed investment products, and related products. The instructor discusses areas of concern from New York as a result of the first year of filings, including completeness, call and prepayment assumptions, default assumptions [sometimes zero], surrender assumptions [too low], failure to reflect taxes, poor communication between actuary and investment department, length of projections, varying yield curves, reflection of reinsurance, and the most common reason for rejecting the opinion: using starting assets greater than liabilities. Other problems were illustrated through examples, and changes to Regulation 126 were discussed.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this teaching session on Equity-Indexed Annuities, the panelists discussed the background and techniques of the NAIC's Guideline ZZZ, what must be done, the market-value-based methods, the book-value method, and ideas regarding making the best overall choice among the methods.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists addressed regulatory activity with respect to minimum guaranteed benefits for variable annuities: Specifically, AG XXXIV as it relates to minimum guaranteed death benefits and regulatory work that is being done in the guaranteed living benefits area.