Description: This article contains a summary of the SOA International Experience Survey of Embedded Value Financial Assumptions. Topics surveyed include discount rate, equity return, fixed return, local government return, inflation, and tax rates.

Description: Full version of International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: discussion of risk management and proper pricing of life insurance products.

Description: This article discusses the survey of published embeddd value EV financial assumptions through 2010 sponsored by the Society of Actuaries International Experience Study Working Group. The purpose of this survey is to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data.

Description: Actuaries have traditionally recognized the links between risk and value, and in recent years have begun to incorporate aspects of modern financial economic theory into their traditional valuation and risk management approaches. As a result, there has been an increasing trend in the incorporation of explicit market-based risk adjustments into valuations, whether for internal or external purposes. The use of market-based metrics to reflect risk in valuations is becoming increasingly widespread—in fact, major external standard setters, including FASB, IASB, CFO Forum and the various parties setting standards for Solvency II, have prescribed varying levels of use of market-based metrics to measure risk in valuations. Presented at 2010 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Society of Actuaries, April 12-15, 2010.

Description: This article presents the results of a survey of financial assumptions contained in 2003 embedded value reports. The purpose of the survey was to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data and to enhance the knowledge of actuaries about current international market conditions and practices.

Description: Article discusses the findings of the SOA International Experience Survey on embedded-value financial assumptions. It is intended to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data.

Description: This article presents the results of a survey of financial assumptions contained in 2003 embedded value reports. The purpose of the survey is to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data. From International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: Full version of International Section News, November 2007, Issue No. 43.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! September 2006, Issue No. 66.