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  • Commissioner Wilcox next asked Ms. VanLeer to show the illustrations she had prepared that used the standards in the technical resource advisors' draft to prepare an actual illustration (Attachment Four-C).  (p522)

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  • Commissioner Robert Hunter (Texas) asked if the assumptions being discussed in Section V of the standards paper would be disclosed in the policy.
  • Commissioner Wilcox responded that they did not need to be disclosed in the same manner that they would be disclosed to an actuary, but that some information would be required.

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  • Mr. Wright <Commissioner> reported that the NAIC had agreed to hire an actuarial consultant to assist the working group in its task.

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  • Jim Johnson (Mutual Group) said the most important part of the illustration was the footnotes at the end.
  • He suggested that instead of many footnotes there should be a simple, clear explanation at the beginning. 
  • He said consumer understanding was important and suggested a set of common definitions.

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  • Ed Coover (National Travelers Life) said the problem was explaining to consumers that the illustration was only a snapshot.

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  • Fred Nepple (Wis.) asked if the working group would actually end up proposing two different models with opposite approaches.
  • Mr. Montgomery said that he did not see much other choice because some regulators were very much opposed to illustration of non-guaranteed elements and other regulators supported that approach to a great extent.

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