Description: Panelists discuss: [1] the tax implication of NAIC changes to reserving requirements, [2] the new NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation [Reg. XXX], [3] Actuarial Guideline 33 [AG 33], [4] AG 34, and [5] highlights of an actual IRS audit involving these NAIC actuarial guidelines and regulations. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Milliman, Inc. Milliman was retained by the Society of Actuaries SOA to perform certain actuarial analyses with respect to the Z-Factor methodology under a principles-based approach PBA to statutory reserve and capital. Under PBA, the Z-Factor is a measure of margin in excess of the best estimate assumptions embedded in the statutory reserves of a life insurance product or block of business.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting covers current reserving requirements for AIDS in the U.S., Canada, and the U. K. Case studies are presented that look at evaluating the AIDS risk and determining the necessary reserves and surplus for the extra mortality.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' paper by Sternhell.

Description: The 1980 CSO Tables were developed by the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation to replace the existing 1958 CSO Tables as the minimum standard for valuation. This paper presents the new tables and recommendations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

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: Discusses mortality improvements over the last 20 years, the extent to which premiums on nonparticipating policies reflect the changes in mortality experience, the proposed new valuation table, should valuation tables be split by gender, and extra mortality on substandard lives at very long durations.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This panel discussion focuses on valuation and nonforfeiture developments. Topics covered include purpose of Society's Committee on Valuation and Related Problems, current valuation regulatory developments, industry studies in the United States, report of the Society's Special Committee on Nonforfeiture Laws, annuity nonforfeiture values, and sex-distinct mortality tables for valuation and nonforfeiture purposes.

Description: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.