Description: Overview of Investment Section activity and vision ahead.

Description: The CAS is pleased to present its Research Paper, “Users’ Guide to Economic Scenario Generation in Property-Casualty Insurance”. Although there are cases in the literature about the use of economic scenario generators (ESGs) in the property casualty industry, they are far more commonly used for life insurance companies. Our hope is that this paper will serve as a comprehensive guide to the implementation of ESGs in the non-life space and spark interest in research into new applications of ESGs.

Description: This article focuses on the TCJA’s changes to the provisions for net operating losses (“NOLs”) and highlights some of the challenges surrounding the NOL provisions that insurance companies may face when making business decisions around reinsurance agreements.

Description: A discussion of techniques that can help manage model risk and complexity.

Description: The article provides an introduction to some of the key limitations that the Internal Revenue Code imposes on business uses of life insurance, focusing on the limitations under Section 264(a) on business deductions for premiums and interest expenses related to life insurance, the similar limitations under Section 264(f) for unrelated interest expenses of businesses that own life insurance, the limitations under Section 101(j) on the excludability of death benefits under employer-owned life insurance contracts, and the recently-enacted rules for life settlement transactions.

Description: This article walks through the history of model efficiency in the U.S. life insurance industry, examines its current application, and looks ahead to what we might expect to see in the future.

Description: These products effectively provide policyholders access to an equity index with an option pass-through. This new direction blurs the line between more traditional variable annuity and fixed indexed annuity products. This session will discuss these and other similar product innovations, including some interesting regulatory, accounting, and risk management considerations.

Description: The session will talk about Management expectation and key development areas of Big Data, overview of big data application in the life insurance industry.

Description: Frequently Asked Questions on tax reserve methods and assumptions, based on law in effect prior to 12/31/2017.

Description: An economic value model is used by the National Hockey League NHL to allocate salary budgets between players using a method based principally on salary comparison between players with similar statistics.