Variable Annuity Reserve and Capital Reforms: Key Implementation and Reporting Issues

VA reserve and capital reforms are effective 1/1/20 and the first year of reporting under the new framework requires several key milestones for annuity valuation actuaries to achieve. Discuss key implementation issues, including the new standard projection, optionality around hedge treatment and taxation, discuss disclosure requirements as well as the PBR report requirements. Overall focus on decisions to be taken by a valuation actuary with respect to reporting under the new framework.

Parul Bhatia MAAA (Moderator)

Managing Actuary & Head of Valuation; Venerable

Parul Bhatia heads the valuation function at Venerable Insurance and Annuity Company, based in their West Chester, PA office. Parul has over 15 years of experience in the US, U.K., and Asia-Pacific life insurance markets. Her areas of expertise include financial reporting and modeling of variable and payout annuities, mergers and acquisitions, policyholder behavior analysis, and embedded value reporting. Prior to joining Venerable, Parul worked at Willis Towers Watson in their Philadelphia and India offices. Parul is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, U.K. and the Institute of Actuaries of India. She is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Zohair A Motiwalla FSA,MAAA

Principal and Consulting Actuary; Milliman Inc

Zohair is a principal and consulting actuary with the life insurance consulting practice of the Seattle office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2007. Zohair has extensive experience in the fixed annuity and variable annuity spaces and specializes in helping clients develop models to support U.S. statutory and GAAP financial reporting requirements. In recent years he has also worked with many companies in the areas of model validation and governance, remediation, benchmarking, mergers and acquisitions, non guarantee element analysis and stochastic modeling.

Yuan Tao, FSA, MAAA

Principal, Oliver Wyman

Yuan Tao is a Principal with the Actuarial Practice of Oliver Wyman and is based in Hartford. She has nearly twenty years of actuarial experience. Her areas of expertise include pricing, hedging, financial reporting and modeling for variable and fixed indexed annuities. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman in 2016, Yuan was an Assistant Vice President and Actuary at MassMutual, where she held positions leading pricing and hedging of variable annuities. Yuan also spent nine years in annuity product development and hedging with other carriers prior to joining MassMutual. Yuan holds a B.A. in Statistics from Renmin University of China and an M. Math. in Actuarial Science from University of Waterloo in Canada. Yuan is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a CFA® charterholder.

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09/02/2020 at 11:45 AM (EDT)  |  Recorded On: 09/10/2020
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