Description: The Society’s Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation was formed in 1980 at NAIC request because the margins in the 1971 IAM Table had eroded. This article describes the development of the 1983 Table a and shows how well the 1973 Experience Table fits the underlying data.

Description: Insurance companies are not immune to liquidity risks.

Description: Discusses how AG 34 provides a clarification of CARVM for variable annuities with MGDB’s.

Description: Discusses some of the new and different ideas being considered by the Wilcox Committee that is working on the Unified Valuation System, UVS, especially as they relate to smaller companies.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Regional Meeting looks at issues surrounding reserves for structured settlement and similar annuities including interest rates, cash flow testing, NAIC guidelines, mortality assumptions, and GAAP considerations.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this teaching session on Equity-Indexed Annuities, the panelists discussed the background and techniques of the NAIC's Guideline ZZZ, what must be done, the market-value-based methods, the book-value method, and ideas regarding making the best overall choice among the methods.

Description: 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. The panelists addressed regulatory activity with respect to minimum guaranteed benefits for variable annuities: Specifically, AG XXXIV as it relates to minimum guaranteed death benefits and regulatory work that is being done in the guaranteed living benefits area.

Description: Feature article discussing the results of a recent ULSG AG38 Valuation Research Report.

Description: Update from the ACLI about its continued contact with Treasury relating to AG VACARVM and Life PBR.

Description: Building on the Part 1 article, Introduction to the Representative Scenarios Method, this article describes testing the methodology with respect to four product types, fixed indexed annuities with GLIBs, level term life insurance, universal life with secondary guarantees, and variable annuities with GLWBs. This Part 2 article describes testing results, refinements to the RSM methodology, and next steps.