Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 2003 Washington, DC Spring Meeting discuss variable annuity reserving issues with respect to statutory, GAAP and tax. Methodologies and the effect of a proposed Standard of Practice are discussed.

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: This is the sixth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session discussed the concepts of expense allocation, determination of product costs, overhead expenses, the product-cost system, variable versus fixed expenses, and pricing on a marginal basis.

Description: This session discussion: Product design, Risks and how to deal with them, Special features, Valuation considerations, Investment strategy, Regulatory developments.

Description: February 2010 Supplement to the Taxation Section newsletter, Taxing Times. Extensive discussion of the issues in computing statutory and tax reserves for annuities under VA CARVM.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper examines the trends of mortality improvement in the United States for the consideration of the task force set up in 2010 to review the life tables for Group Annuity and the related assumptions for mortality improvement 'Scale AA', using more recent information from the Social Security Administration life tables and data derived from the Human Mortality Database.

Description: This is a request for data for the 2005 intercompany expense study.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting gives an overview of the equity indexed market and discusses the issues associated with managing these products after issue.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses' fourth annual expense study – the 2004 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study. A Per Policy Index for first year expenses and a Per Policy Inforce Index for operating expenses is developed as a high level basis of comparison.