Description: In this panel discussion session, the participants discuss programs to update existing life insurance policyholders, which some companies have implemented in light of rapidly changing economic conditions, namely inflation.

Description: Discusses the MSVR: its purpose, how it has [or has not] met its purpose – especially for a company invested in high-risk securities – how it will be affected by the proposed valuation-law changes, and how to treat it in the actuarial opinion required by New York Regulation 126. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: In this session the panel members speculate about the future of permanent life insurance. The discussion looks at term versus permanent and the considerations due to inflation, regulations, taxes, etc.

Description: Panelists, who are on the NAIC Special Advisory Committee – Valuation Law, discuss the current status of efforts to revise the SVL and the requirements for the actuarial opinion. They also solicit, and get, audience participation and questions. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting is about the relationship between product design and investment policy. The focus is on a review of investment metircs, discussion of option adjusted spreads, and the use of total return from equity investments to support insurance products.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting covers solvency requirements for life companies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, U.K. and Europe.

Description: This panel discussion, presented at the SOA's May 1976 Meeting in Houston, presented information related to the philosophy and practice of investment income allocation. Topics inlcluded: investment income allocation for individual and group products, subdivision of investment income by line of business, new money rates applicability for individual and group products, investment considerations for pension, annuity and life insurance, and regulatory restraints. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1976, Volume 2, No. 2.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting in New York. This session is about Dynamic Solvency Handbook developed by The Financial and Investment Management Practice Education Committee. The handbook is for actuaries who prepare solvency reports, and the targeted completion date was December 31, 1994.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. This session discussed the 1992 status of NAIC risked-based capital. Topics included: 1. An update of the formula and the model law. 2. The regulatory viewpoint, which addressed the need for RBC and how the model law was to be implemented. 3. The rating agency viewpoint on RBC and its use.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discuss a proposed American Academy of Actuaries Life and Health Actuarial Task Force study of current valuation methods applicable to life insurance, annuities, and health insurance. As a result of new products, such as equity indexed annuities, the current formula driven reserving system is in need of basic change.