Description: Standard Valuation Law (VM-20) State Adoption Status (May 8, 2014)

Description: This article discusses how to find the right Enterprise Risk Management strategy for a company. The authors assert that ERM effectiveness ultimately resides with people through collaboration, wisdom and judgment.

Description: The 2020 edition of the Valuation Manual permits mortality data aggregation thereby enhancing credibility but also has accompanying requirements and addresses calculation of company experience rates.

Description: Find information about the Life Reinsurance Treaty Construction. The report’s purpose is to increase awareness of the importance of many reinsurance treaty terms/provisions; identify common treaty structures, practices, and/or solutions in reinsurance treaty construction and negotiation; and illustrate how treaty terms have evolved over time.

Description: Compares Term VM-20 modeled reserves at low credibility factors.

Description: A template to calculate the NPR (Net Premium Reserve) in the Valuation Manual VM-20 (based on the December 2, 2012, version).

Description: In November 2020 the Life Actuarial (A) Task Force unanimously passed APF 2020-08 which adds a third permissible method in the Valuation Manual to determine company experience mortality rates. This article describes the three methods

Description: This SOA report’s purpose is to increase awareness of the importance of many reinsurance treaty terms/provisions, identify common treaty structures, practices, and/or solutions in reinsurance treaty construction and negotiation and illustrate how treaty terms have evolved over time. Lessons can be learned from ceding companies’ and reinsurers’ viewpoints and objectives on key treaty provisions and by considering obstacles, compromises, conflicts and solutions during and subsequent to the treaty construction and negotiation process. This report is based on questionnaire responses, telephone interviews, participant research assignments, follow-up email correspondence and an in-person roundtable discussion. This report documents participant’s points, counterpoints, counter-counterpoints and insights

Description: This PBA Implementation Guide provides verbal summaries and visual flow chart overviews of various VM-20 and PBA components and requirements, six Case Study Road Maps, and action items to bridge the gaps and implement PBA. During the Guide’s development these templates and exercises were vetted with more than 15 participants selected from a diverse group of companies.