Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues concerned with Life and Annuity Valuation, specifically meeting the 50 States Requirements, meeting the NAIC Actuarial Guidelines of valuation requirements, Guideline XXX and its implications and the use of new optional 15-year select factors to be applied to the 1980 CSO.

Description: From the Record 1991 Vol. 17, No. 1, this is the keynote presentation from the Society of Actuaries 1991 Regional Meeting, held in New Orleans April 18-19. The speakers discuss the increasing importance of the asset side of the balance sheet in looking at the reserves and overall solvency of a life insurance company, and the outlook for an increase in responsibilities and liabilities for the actuary in the 90s.

Description: Session 9 of the 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium is an open forum on reinsurance.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. Panelists discussed emerging issues from the perspective of smaller insurance companies. Topics addressed included an update on illustration actuary requirements and the implications of the NAIC codification project for smaller companies.

Description: U.K. life insurers writing participating business are required by the Financial Services Authority to value their assets and liabilities on a market-consistent basis. The purpose of this paper is to: • Explain the valuation approach based on market-consistent values and its rationale. • Set out the issues faced by life insurers in implementing the regime. • Explain how insurers addressed these issues. • Explain the importance of the modeling techniques they used.

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings is a workshop on statutory, GAAP and tax issues for the valuation actuary. Various specific state regulations are discussed.

Description: The main elements of the current US, Canadian and proposed Solvency II regulatory capital regimes for property and casualty insurance companies are compared in this paper.

Description: The purpose of paper is to outline and illustrate some of the more important differences among the current US and Canadian regulatory capital regimes and the standard formula of the Solvency II framework using a hypothetical term-life insurance portfolio as an example.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion was on new actuarial standards for in Canada. Topics covered included: 1. The flexibility afforded the Canadian Valuation Actuary under the new Insurance Acts. 2. A comparison to the current GAAP and statutory reporting requirements in the U.S. and to the reporting requirements in the United Kingdom.

Description: 1998 SOA Spring Meeting, Maui. Panelists addressed recent, current, and proposed activity in the life insurance company financial reporting environment. Actuarial Guidelines 33, 34, and ZZZ were discussed as were equity-indexed products.