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  • Expense Analysis and Allocation
    eightfold. These results must be interpreted with care. The front ending of commissions without a change ... that there was not much we could do in terms of direct control of expenses. When you talk about year-end ...

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    • Authors: David Congram, Robert H Dreyer, John Macarchuk, Philip Turner
    • Date: May 1977
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Expense Strategy and Pricing Considerations
    being allocated to products. Expense Analysis The primary source of the expense data comes from the accounting ... lists four possible allocation methods: (1) the direct allocation, (2) activity-based allocation, (3) ...

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    • Authors: Edward Jarrett, Johan Lotter, Lawrence Silkes
    • Date: Apr 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Expense Strategy and Pricing Considerations
    a particular function increases. There are two primary factors contributing to this: scale effect, and ... Wright Patterson Air Force Base observed that the direct labor hours used to assemble aircraft decreased ...

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    • Authors: Keith Gubbay, John Yanko, Andrew S Cherkas
    • Date: May 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Expense Management
    expenseassumptionsfor pricingor managing in force, start with the direct unit and policycosts. You want to add the appropriate ... as variable or fixed. Some people use the terms direct and indirect, marginal and overhead. For purposes ...

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    • Authors: Greg Mateja, Application Administrator
    • Date: May 1993
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Do You Know How Much You're Spending? The Hidden Costs of Product Complexity
    Maybe you're a life company going into long-term care (LTC), for example. Or it could be that you're ... definitive question you must ask yourself is: Do you care if your competitors know? As we get into a environment ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Vincent Granieri, Paul Haley, Van Beach
    • Date: Oct 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Agent Compensation and Expense Issues
    experience in the life insurance industry, and his primary areas of expertise are financial reporting and ... this at work with a couple of firms. These are direct impacts to the bottom line to the organization ...

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    • Authors: Gaetan Nicolas, John F Bevacqua, Steeve Jean, Michael Herman
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Expenses - Annuities; Annuities>Marketing and distribution - Annuities; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance