The Annuity Reserve Work Group delivered a report to the Life Actuarial Task Force proposing the modification of Actuarial Guideline 33 as a solution to reserving for guarantee living income benefits.
()The ERM/ORSA Climate Related Financial Disclosures Working Group shared an update to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Climate and Resiliency (EX) Task Force at its National Meeting. Work Group Chair, Michelle Young, and Academy Assistant Director of Research, Steve Jackson, shared the group's research and analysis thus far, along with plans for phase two of the project.
()The Life Operational Risk Work Group submitted a follow-up letter to the NAIC on the exposed Life Risk-Based Capital growth charge proposal.
()Intersector Group releases a report to the Pension Practice Council containing notes from its March 2014 meeting with the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service.
()The Health Practice Council submitted comments to the Actuarial Standards Board on the fourth exposure draft of a proposed new actuarial standard of practice for modeling.
()The Health Practice Council co-signed a second letter with the Committee on Qualifications Chair to the Arizona insurance director stressing its concern that their regulatory definition of “qualified actuary” for health premium rate actuarial certifications was inappropriate and suggested corrective language.
()The Invested Asset Work Group commented on the American Council of Life Insurers’ Commercial Mortgage Risk-based Capital (RBC) Proposal in a letter to the NAIC’s Life RBC Working Group.
()The Life Illustrations Work Group submitted a comment letter to the Life Actuarial Task Force on the ACLI proposal for an Actuarial Guideline for Indexed Universal Life Illustrations.
The VM-22 drafting subgroup of the Annuity Reserve Work Group (ARWG) submitted comments to LATF’s VM-22 subgroup on draft sections of VM-22 that cover all non-variable annuities and deposit funds.
()The Long-Term Care Practice Note Work Group has extended to July 8 the exposure period for the LTC rate stability practice note, "Long-Term Compliance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Long-Term Care Insurance Model Regulation Relating to Rate Stability."
()Life Financial Soundness/Risk Management Committee made a presentation to NAIC’s Life Actuarial Task Force on whether the direct iteration approach for the deterministic reserve results in the same amount as the gross premium valuation approach currently required by VM-20.
()The Life Reserves Work Group presented to the Life Actuarial Task Force at the NAIC Fall 2012 National Meeting with background information on the VM-20 Asset Default Methodology and Development Process.
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