Description: Companies exempt from PBR can benefit by borrowing ideas and lessons learned from companies that perform and operate in a PBR world. The presenters will discuss VM requirements related to governance policies, as well as assumption and margin setting, plus model validations and controls which can benefit smaller insurance companies. Attendees will learn about new actuarial practices and how the PBR methodology and Valuation Manual can influence their work and highlight available resources.

Description: This session will provide an update on international implications of current tax developments affecting the life insurance industry, including: International add-on taxes from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) and impacts on offshore reinsurance An overview of the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) tax Legislative activities impacting company taxation

Description: With the halfway point of the transition period in the rear view mirror, many companies are well underway with their VM-20 implementation and analysis efforts. Beyond attempting to master the new rules of the road, actuaries have discovered new effects of product design and assumption setting. Panelists in this session will discuss their experiences with VM-20 reserves for various products and designs, their applications of actuarial judgement and the areas where even they don’t have all the answers. The audience is encouraged to bring their questions and also to share their insights.

Description: This paper proposes a more generalized Gerber-Shiu G-S function which contains both the G_S expected discounted penalty function and dividends paid up to ruin, as well as many others that have not been taken into consideration in the same systematic way, such as the insurer's accumulative utility, expected total discounted claim expenses, etc. The major result provides a unifying approach for all ruin-related quantities that fall in the category of the generalized GS function. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2008, Vol. 1.

Description: This article gives the highlights of the 88-page report including detailed assumptions for products including universal life with secondary guarantees (ULSG), cash accumulation universal life (CashAccum), current assumption universal life (CAUL), indexed universal life (IUL) and variable universal life (VUL). The 29 companies and 83 products represented in the report allow for an interesting perspective on premium persistency assumptions used in pricing, cash flow testing (CFT) and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)/international financial reporting standard (IFRS) functions. This article covers some general results and ULSG-specific results.

Description: Hot topics and emerging trends in assumption development in US life insurance companies

Description: To Admit Or Not To Admit — Is That The Question? by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. from The Financial Reporter, March 2001, Issue No. 45.

Description: Summarizes the efforts to complete the Valuation Manual by March 2010, for the NAIC's March meeting.

Description: Feature article discussing the results of a recent ULSG AG38 Valuation Research Report.

Description: Update on State Adoption of SVL, NY Reg 147, 179, LICONY's response, ACLI small co exemption proposal