Life
The Life Practice Council (LPC) provides objective technical expertise to policymakers and regulators on life insurance issues, including a principle-based regulatory approach to reserving and risk-based capital.
Capital
Life and annuity capital adequacy and recommendations to improve life Risk-based Capital (RBC) requirements.
Product
Life and annuity product features and their design.
Principle-Based Reserving (PBR)
The Academy has assembled materials to assist actuaries and regulators as the U.S. moves into the implementation phase of PBR for life insurance. Click here to access these materials and here to access public statements made by the Academy related to PBR.
Financial Reporting
Life insurance and annuity topics that involve financial reporting, with an emphasis on GAAP and international issues.
Reserves
The minimum statutory reserve standard for all life and annuity products.
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Life News
The Academy’s Annuity Reserves and Capital Work Group, Variable Annuity Reserves and Capital Work Group, and Life Reserves Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force on APF 2022-04 Swap Spreads and the transition from LIBOR to SOFR.
( )The Academy’s Economic Scenario Generator Work Group submitted a presentation to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force Subgroup on Economic Scenario Generator (ESG) Stylized Facts for Equities.
( )The Academy’s Index-Linked Variable Annuity Work Group submitted comments to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup on its fifth exposure draft of the proposed Actuarial Guideline ILVA, Nonforfeiture Requirements for Index Linked Variable Annuity Products.
( )The Academy’s Life Illustrations Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force and its Indexed Universal Life (IUL) Illustration (A) Subgroup regarding the August 15, 2022 Indexed Universal Life (IUL) Illustration (A) Subgroup Indexed Universal Life Exposure.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief that that provides a discussion of a variety of approaches for adding annuity options to defined contribution (DC) plans providing for insured lifetime income that begins immediately, is deferred, or is provided under an accumulation product that converts funds to lifetime income.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief providing a discussion of Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts (QLACs), which are insured annuities paid out one or more years after purchase, possibly starting at an advanced age.
( )The Academy's Lifetime Income Risk Joint Committee released an issue brief that provides a discussion of the various types of insured annuities available to individuals and their potential uses, as well as some relevant tax implications.
( )The Academy’s Index-Linked Variable Annuity Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup regarding Exposure 4 of the Proposed Actuarial Guideline ILVA, Nonforfeiture Requirements for Index Linked Variable Annuity Products.
( )The Academy’s Annuity Reserves and Capital Work Group (ARCWG) submitted comments to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Valuation Manual (VM)-22 (A) Subgroup on its exposure draft regarding specific treatment in the VM-22 Framework for addressing longevity reinsurance.
( )The Academy’s Life Illustrations Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Indexed Universal Life (IUL) Illustration (A) Subgroup regarding the July 18, 2022 Indexed Universal Life Exposure.
( )The Academy’s Index-Linked Variable Annuity Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup regarding Exposure 3.1 of the Proposed Actuarial Guideline ILVA, Nonforfeiture Requirements for Index Linked Variable Annuity Products Support by Non-Unitized Accounts.
( )The Academy’s Economic Scenario Generator Work Group submitted a presentation to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force regarding a proposed schedule to develop acceptance criteria for stochastic sets of economic scenarios.
( )The Academy’s Life Experience Committee and the SOA’s Preferred Mortality Project Oversight Group submitted a presentation providing an update to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force on Future Mortality Improvement Scale Development (VM-20).
( )The Academy’s Annuity Reserves and Capital Work Group, Variable Annuity Reserves and Capitol Work Group, and the Life Reserves Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force on the exposure of APF 2022-04 Swap Spreads and the transition from LIBOR to SOFR.
( )The Academy’s Life Experience Committee submitted a List of Resources to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Actuarial (A) Task Force regarding COVID-19 in Life Insurance Mortality Improvement.
( )Life Public Statements
Comments and letters
Comments, analysis, or explanatory material prepared for an external audience on behalf of an Academy group or the Academy as a whole; these include letters, memos, reports, and fact sheets.
Issue briefs
Analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public.
Policy papers
Include white papers and monographs which are longer, more detailed analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public. Includes monographs and white papers.
Presentations
Slides presented by the Academy at webinars, seminars, briefings, hearings, or other meetings and events.
Reports to the NAIC
The Academy works with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on the creation and refinement of sensible, effective regulation. These reports and related documents highlight the NAIC-related work of the life practice councils.
Testimony
Written and oral testimony provided to Congress or to other governmental and quasigovernmental bodies.
Practice Notes
Practice notes offer examples of current and emerging approaches to selected actuarial tasks. They are intended to supplement the available actuarial literature, especially where the practices addressed are subject to evolving technology, recently adopted external requirements, or advances in actuarial science and other applicable disciplines.
