Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about proposed revisions of the Standard Valuation Law. The changes from the insurance company and regulator perspective are discussed. The concept of the valuation actuary is also discussed.

Description: 1992 SOA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. The stated purpose of this session was to discuss specifically how a company can manage and improve its financial performance as measured by the statutory financial statement. Eleven strategies to improve performance were addressed.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about risk-based capital, NAIC activities, and how Blue Cross/Blue Shield's initiatives intertwine with the model bill on RBC that the NAIC has proposed.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Presents tips, techniques, and models for Disabled Life Reserve and incurred but not reported 'IBNR' reserves.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses GAAP topics including purchase accounting, UL, deferred acquisition costs and others. The value of interim earnings reports and statutory issues are also examined. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session debates the following resolution - resolved: the actuary should be required to express an opinion in life insurance company statements regarding the valuation adequacy of projected future cash flows.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Role of solvency surveillance, Role of the valuation actuary, Role of reinsurance, Role of integrated financial services, Role of the American Academy of Actuaries Committees on Life Insurance Company Financial Reporting Principles and on Property and Liability Insurance Financial Reporting Principles.

Description: Contained in Appendix 4 of the 1987 Valuation Actuary Handbook, this set of articles sets forth the positions of various industry groups with regard to the valuation actuary concept as of January 1987. It consists of four sections: 4.1 – Excerpts from the Report of the Task Force on the Valuation Actuary to the ACLI Board of Directors, August 1986 4.2 – Final Report of the Joint Committee on the Role of the Valuation Actuary in the United States 4.3 – Preliminary Report to NAIC Life & Health Actuarial Task Force from Surplus & Solvency Subcommittee of NAIC Standing Technical Advisory Committee, October 9-10, 1986 and 4.4 – Draft Recommendation 7 – American Academy of Actuaries paper. Views of the American Council of Life Insurance, ‘ACLI,’ the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, ‘NAIC,’ the American Academy of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries are all represented. Note that the final report in 4.2 above was adopted in 1984 by the boards of both the Academy and Society, the two organizations represented on the Joint Committee.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 The National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation XXX sets forth the valuation requirements for life insurance with nonlevel premiums or nonlevel benefits, including term insurance and universal life with certain underlying guarantees. Panelists discussed the issues around implementation of the requirements. The issues discussed include: • Determination of X factors when no credible company mortality exists • Proper treatment of secondary guarantees in universal life insurance • Preparation of the mortality assumption opinion requirements • Impacts on product development and design

Description: Regulators share their perspective on a variety of issues including statutory reserve related issues. From a session at the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, September 19–20, 2002