Description: This session will go through recent and new NAIC Actuarial Guidelines and the impact it has had on the US Statutory Cashflow testing. The focus will be on the new Reinsurance Asset Adequacy Testing Actuarial Guideline and Actuarial Guideline 53.This session is intended to be beneficial for consultants who interact with NAIC statutory regulations. This could be Appointed Actuary work, statutory financial reporting work, or M&A.

Description: Session 4D: A Year of Change for Medicare Advantage

Description: This webinar will cover the basics of structured assets, their uses in the insurance industry, and ALM and capital considerations. It will also include a section with an introduction to CLO Residual Tranches and recent capital discussions surrounding them.

Description: The speakers will work through hands-on Excel examples of bootstrapping interest rate curves—including forward, spot, and par rates. The presenters will also cover models such as Hull-White and the Forward Market Model with an emphasis on derivative valuation and exposure calculations.

Description: As tariff policies are rapidly changing throughout 2025, the U.S. markets have been reacting in complex ways. In addressing the difference in short and long-term impacts of these policy changes, the importance of resilient and holistic risk management is highlighted in order for companies and investors to find opportunities and mitigate sudden losses.

Description: The 1986-98 Credit Risk Loss Experience Study represents a continuation of the 1986-94 study analyzing credit loss experience by institutional investors on private placement bonds. The study measures incidence rates, loss severities and economic loss rates associated with credit risk events for privately placed debt during the years 1986-98.

Description: The recent financial crisis created incentives to review investment practices and see what was done well and what could be improved for the future. Looking inward at insurer investment practices, background trend information was generated and a survey developed for insurers to share their thoughts. The research continued with conversations in private and public forums, where initial conclusions were expanded.

Description: This report studies the various benchmarks for analyzing the option-adjusted spreads of the major fixed income asset classes of life insurance companies. In addition, this report analyzes the historical benchmark performance against default rates for the asset class being benchmarked.

Description: This article discusses the details of what happened in equity repo in 2013.

Description: Why Write Variable Products When You Can Put the Money Directly into the Stock Market?