The NAIC's Securities Valuation Office (SVO), located in New York City, is responsible for the day-to-day credit quality assessment and valuation of securities owned by state regulated insurance companies. Insurance companies report ownership of securities to the SVO when such securities are eligible for filing on Schedule D or DA of the NAIC Financial Statement Blank. The SVO conducts credit analysis on these securities for the purpose of assigning an NAIC designation and/or unit price. These designations and unit prices are produced solely for the benefit of NAIC members who may utilize them as part of the member's monitoring of the financial condition of its domiciliary insurers. Unlike the ratings of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, NAIC designations are not produced to aid the investment decision making process and therefore are not suitable for use by anyone other than NAIC members.

SVO Determinations provide an anchor to a variety of regulatory mechanisms such as statutory accounting, Annual Statement Instructions and Risk-Based Capital. The links below are to NAIC Committees, Task Forces and Working Groups that deal with these issues.

• Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group
• Emerging Accounting Issues (E) Working Group
• Blanks (E) Working Group
• Life Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group
• Property Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group
• Hybrid Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group