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Committee Releases Resource and Discussion Guide on Guaranteed Living Benefits
The Life Experience Committee released a resource and discussion guide, Utilization Assumptions of Guaranteed Living Benefits for Deferred Annuities. The guide suggests some reasons why there may be…
Comment / Letter
Subcommittee Comments to Variable Annuities Capital and Reserve Subgroup
The Variable Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee sent comments to the NAIC’s Variable Annuities Capital and Reserve (E/A) Subgroup on the exposure draft of APF 2024-07 that proposes updates…
Comment / Letter
Subcommittee Comments on Oliver Wyman Report
The C1 Subcommittee commented on the Oliver Wyman report on Asset-Backed Securities Residual Tranches that was exposed at the NAIC Spring National Meeting to the NAIC’s Risk Based Capital Investment…
Topics: NAIC
Comment / Letter
Committees Comment to FASB on Financial Reporting Draft
The Financial Reporting Committee and the Life GAAP Reporting Committee sent a comment letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on the exposure draft of Chapter 6: Measurement, of…LPC Presents to LATF at NAIC Spring Meeting
Life Policy Analyst Amanda Barry-Moilanen presented on behalf of the Life Practice Council (LPC) on current and future LPC workstreams to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC)…
Topics: NAIC
Comment / Letter
Cross-Practice Letter on NY Proposed Circular on AIS and ECDIS in Insurance Underwriting and Pricing
The Academy’s Health, Life, and Casualty practice councils submitted comments on New York State Department of Financial Services’ proposed insurance circular letter on the use of Artificial…
Presentation
Asset Adequacy Task Force Presents to LATF on Reinsurance Issues
The Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force presented to LATF on its recent issue brief, Asset-Intensive Reinsurance Ceded Offshore From U.S. Life Insurers (With Focus on Bermuda), at the…
Presentation
Subcommittee presents to RBCIRE
The C1 Subcommittee presented to the NAIC’s Risk-Based Capital Investment Risk and Evaluation (E) Working Group (RBCIRE) to provide an update on their work on asset-backed securities (ABS) for…
Presentation
Subcommittee Presents to LATF
The Variable Annuity and Capital Subcommittee and the SOA Individual Annuity Experience Committee presented to the NAIC’s Life Actuarial (A) Task Force (LATF) on proposed mortality adjustment…
Topics: NAIC
Committees Present to LATF on Mortality Adjustment Factors
The Variable Annuity and Capital Subcommittee and the Society of Actuaries Individual Annuity Experience Committee presented to LATF on proposed mortality adjustment factor updates for Valuation…
Topics: NAIC