Description: The Group Life Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed the 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table Report. There were several compelling reasons to develop a new experience study and table, not the least of which was that 35 years is a long interval for any study. This is the excel Calculation Spreadsheet for Reserve Factors for Group Term Waiver of Premium [NAIC version]. Please see the SOA website for the Report of the Group Life Experience Committee for March 2006.

Description: Discussion of the establishment of deferred tax assets or liabilities under Statutory codification

Description: Feature article about the transitioning of life insurance products to RBC C3 Phase III.

Description: How actuarial practices have benefited from lessons learned from accountants

Description: update on regulatory issues focusing on PBR

Description: General discussion session which included the following topics: A. Non-medical limits B. Deficiency reserves for individual life insurance

Description: In this article, we explore key insights from Oliver Wyman's 2020 Life PBR Emerging Practices Survey, which provides a broad industry perspective with more than 50 companies participating representing 95 percent of the individual life market (by written premium). Insights include the impact of PBR on reserves and profitability in addition to emerging practices related to product design, assumption development, and methodology decisions.

Description: Panelists provide an overview of risk-based capital requirements. Also discussed are shortcomings and proposed changes currently under consideration. Practical issues with the implementation of these ideas are also presented. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session addressed the task of designing a new NAIC model valuation law embracing the valuation actuary concept, the development of a new Academy SOP specifying how cash flow testing should be done, and SOA committee research to help the valuation actuary to do a better job.

Description: Presenters discuss: [1] market-value accounting, [2] accounting for mortgage-backed securities [MBSs] and collateralized mortgage obligations [CMOs], [3] the emergence of earnings under FAS 60 and FAS 97 products, and [4] effectively communicating financial results to management. Session 10 of the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.