Description: The authors set forth a generalized model describing the application of current law [1976 NAIC model Standard Valuation Law and Standard Nonforfeiture Law] to products of the universal life type. Includes discussion and author’s review of discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983 Volume 35.

Description: The Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation states that the purpose of asset adequacy analysis is to certify that assets are adequate to cover reserves under “moderately adverse conditions.” This article discusses the determination of whether an interest yield scenario is moderately adverse or extreme.

Description: This article offers a possible resolution to certain circularity issues that may arise while implementing the SOP.

Description: Discussions of alternative approaching to setting ascribed premiums for market risk benefits under FASB targeted improvements.

Description: The paper explores developments through 2006 in the application of market-consistent concepts to the measurement of fair values of liabilities for financial reporting purposes. A set of criteria is presented that should be useful in the evaluation of proposed fair value measurement approaches where inputs based on prices observed in an active market with reliable transaction prices are not available. Based on these criteria, one approach is examined that might serve as a basis for the fair value measurement of the liability of life insurance contracts and other financial instruments issued by insurers.

Description: Presents a practical solution to some of the distortion caused by a typical application of the retrospective assumption update (unlocking) method.

Description: Author proposes an improvement and simplification of our theory of financial reporting by organizing them around the free cash-flow model. As will be demonstrated here, this will lead us to a compact, simple and intuitively elegant model, which captures all actuarial reporting concerns and which also unifies with ideas in mainstream financial accounting.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 6 that sets forth the writer’s opinion of that which constitutes a proper insurance reserve for a general purpose financial statement.

Description: This article makes a case for implementation of a mortality fluctuation reserve in GAAP accounting.

Description: The impact of bond default risk on retirement benefit obligations describes how the probability default on a bond is similar to the probability of death for an annuitant. Bonds are used to cash flow match retirement obligations cash flows to funding from bond. Just as the probability of non-payment happens on the liability side, we can do the same with selected bonds. The end result may be an adjustment to the discount rates used.