Description: This session will explore the evolving landscape of accident and health valuation, with a special focus on GAAP Long Duration Targeted Improvements. Discussion will delve into the intricacies of change brought by GAAP LDTI for calculation of both Lifetime Future Policy Benefits (LFPB) and Deferred Acquisition Costs, as well as potential downstream impacts to other activities related to general GAAP and STAT reserving such as experience analysis, model system conversion, financial planning and analysis, and statutory margin analysis. Attendees should be able to connect accounting and financial reporting concepts under GAAP LDTI to opportunities for technology modernization, improved transparency of financial analytics, and important considerations unique to Accident and Health products.

Description: As companies have reported their latest financials for 2023, LDTI is in its full swing for the public companies. Under US GAAP reinsurance accounting methods can be daunting. Add onto this legacy practices related to reinsurance reporting and this may lead to significant unwinding and implementation efforts. This session will discuss industry practices commonly applied to US GAAP reinsurance reported balances such that LDTI adopters can gather deeper insights into the LDTI impact. Specifically, the session will explain the two most popular methods to value reinsurance under LDTI, methods applying a direct measurement of the reinsurance net cost and a method that recognizes ceded asset balances and a cost of reinsurance (“CoRe”). The session will present simplified direct and ceded models to demonstrate how the actuarial balances under LDTI impact GAAP book profits for different underlying products and reinsurance types.

Description: Join us for this popular annual webcast covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. Always informative and occasionally entertaining, this webcast offers a chance to hear from three expert speakers, who will discuss asset adequacy testing and this year's New York and California holiday letters, the impact of recent interest rate changes, potential changes to statutory financial reporting due to climate change, and recent proposal(s) impacting asset adequacy testing for reinsured business.

Description: This session will be centered around the roles and responsibilities of a valuation actuary. Learn the best practices of health actuaries, along with technical considerations and professionalism issues surrounding the calculation and reporting of health liabilities and reserves. This session will focus on key actuarial liability and reserve provisions, including Claims Unpaid and Premium Deficiency Reserves. In this session, explore new ideas about calculation methods and the importance of the underlying assumptions. You will also learn best practices and practical applications concerning reserve calculation discuss best practices regarding the preparation of an actuarial memorandum supporting a Health Annual Statement. This will include key considerations from the American Academy of Actuaries' Practice Note about documenting and supporting the actuarial calculations. The discussion will also present views and considerations from both the insurer's and the regulator's perspectives.

Description: The recent round of regulatory changes (LDTI, IFRS17, PBR) has put a demand on actuarial organizations, and, in particular, financial reporting functions unlike most have experienced in their careers. With adoption, where does this leave the financial reporting function going forward? What work is left to be done? How will the financial reporting function need to evolve under these accounting regimes?

Description: Gain an overview of the requirements for the new asset adequacy Actuarial Guideline 53 (AG53) guideline for complex assets. You will discover helpful insights and considerations for multi-scenario testing and sensitivity testing as well as approaches to developing attribution analyses for complex assets. You will also receive insights from any published regulatory materials that help describe what worked well and what needs improvement based on the initial AG 53 submissions from year-end 2022.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Committee on Finance Research (CFR) and Investment Section are seeking researchers to produce a primer that compares regulatory approaches for actuarially related investment aspects of the banking and insurance industries in North America. The underlying motivation for this effort is to educate actuaries on these issues and provide a useful resource for learning more about how these industries compare in this regard.

Description: A call for proposals for research projects exploring recent insurance product innovations and their impacts on the industry. It outlines the background, purpose, objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, conditions, and conflict of interest disclosures.

Description: This article presents and overview of the PBGC Actuarial Valuation Report from 2005. From Pension Section News, September 2006, No. 62.

Description: Summarizes financial reporting regulatory developments from April - June.