Description: This article presents a discussion of Actuarial Guideline 54 (AG LIV), both the regulatory impetus in its creation as well as the requirements it outlines for a RILA contract to qualify as a variable annuity under the NAIC Variable Annuity Model law and thus be exempt from Fixed Annuity Non-Forfeiture Requirements. Includes an example calculation.

Description: Value of new business (VNB) is being used by many companies for various purposes including: internal and external financial reporting, incentive compensation, pricing, capital management, and comparing products, distribution channels or regions on a consistent basis. Presenters will discuss how and why value of new business is used within their companies including: the various methodologies considered, some of the benefits and challenges related to implementing VNB, integrating VNB within their business as usual processes, and managing to VNB.

Description: The document is a Request for Data Contributions for the 2022-23 Variable Annuity Contract Holder Behavior Experience Study. It outlines the purpose of the study, data submission procedures, important dates, data transmission instructions, study outputs, benefits to data contributors, and data access and ownership details.

Description: Back by popular demand, it is that time of year for this well-liked annual webcast. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will be covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. 2021 has proven to have been quite remarkable, providing many important topics to be discussed.

Description: Next up for Principle-Based Reserves (PBR) is VM-22, PBR for non-variable annuities. With Field Testing underway, companies are beginning to understand the impacts on financial statements, as well as actuarial models, processes, and people. This session will focus on the implications VM-22 will have on companies, including initial lessons learned from the early phases of field testing, actuarial modeling considerations, implementation considerations, and strategic implications - including hedging and reinsurance. At the conclusion of this session attendees will be able to: 1. Explain VM-22 2. Understand initial lessons learned from field testing 3. Identify changes required to actuarial models as a result of VM-22 4. Understand the initial strategic implications of VM-22

Description: Join us for an insightful session on best practices in setting assumptions and margins for Life and Annuity Products. This session will explore traditional best practices outlined by the ASOPs as well as their application in the context of emerging trends and risks in 2024, such as predictive analytics and AI. The session will also cover evolving trends in assumption governance, as corporate ERM areas become increasingly involved in the assumption setting process. Learning objectives include refreshing and enhancing knowledge of existing ASOPs, as well as understanding strategies for emerging risks that the ASOPs do not yet cover.

Description: Explore real-life experiences implementing LDTI for traditional life and annuity products. Learn about strategies that worked well and pitfalls to avoid in the future. Topics include data and assumption management, building disclosures for attribution analyses and roll-forwards, discount rates, implementing new DAC calculations, reinsurance accounting methods, and risk-neutral ESGs and processes to calculate Market Risk Benefits.

Description: FASB published LTDI requirements in 2018. The effective date for insurers who are SEC filers to publish US GAAP financials under LDTI is January 1, 2023. The effective date for non-public insurers is January 1, 2025. LDTI requires insurers to identify a new category of benefits called market risk benefits (MRBs) in insurance products. Broadly, variable annuity (VA) and fixed indexed annuity (FIA) guaranteed minimum death, accumulation, withdrawal, and income benefits fall under MRBs. Valuing MRBs requires calculating the liability on a fair value basis. Valuing FIA MRBs on a fair value basis can be complicated as several aspects of FIAs such as option budgets and policyholder behavior are driven by company management decisions and the competitive landscape.

Description: 2022 was a year of radical change for the annuity market as interest rates increased from historic lows. The rapid growth of RILA products stalled as FIA and MYGA products saw a significant increase in market share. The impacts of the higher rate environment are continuing to be realized in experience, inforce management, product design and more. Explore the retail annuity market with a focus on the impacts of higher interest rates. Expect session materials to draw on experience studies, sales results, product changes, and more which will examine how higher interest rates have altered the annuity market.

Description: Find out how actuaries can use the principles of microservices, which are fundamentally important for improving outcomes for actuarial modernization initiatives. This presentation is NOT worried about Mmcroservices technology itself, but, microservices have properties that actuaries can mimic and replicate to make business processes be more efficient, more timely, and easier to maintain and govern. Focus on how you can incorporate software engineering concepts into help solving actuarial problems without concerning yourself with software engineering technology.