Description: This article uses the example of a bullet or general account GIC to determine the fair value of liabilities.

Description: Summarizes the articles in the newsletter.

Description: Recent and pending changes in financial reporting standards and regulations such as IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements are ramping up the performance pressures on actuarial models. New infrastructure technology in the cloud is driving modeling options that may well help actuaries successfully and economically meet these challenges and unlock even greater transformational change.

Description: This paper presents a policy-year model for GAAP valuation of reinsurance accepted on the coinsurance and modified coinsurance bases. Also presented are the interrelationships between the model's methodology and statutory accounting procedures, a discussion of experience-refunding situations, and a demonstration of the model's ability to yield GAAP profits as a level percentage of premium. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This document is composed of the questions and comments received to date on the initial report of the SOA’s research report on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts Under Possible Future International Accounting Standards.

Description: This PBA Implementation Guide provides verbal summaries and visual flow chart overviews of various VM-20 and PBA components and requirements, six Case Study Road Maps, and action items to bridge the gaps and implement PBA. During the Guide’s development these templates and exercises were vetted with more than 15 participants selected from a diverse group of companies.

Description: US GAAP for Life Insurers chapter 17 spreadsheets showing various examples of GAAP for reinsurance transactions. Examples shown include reinsurance for disability insurance, YRT, Modco and coinsurance on a 10 year endowment reinsurance on Universal Life. Also shown is an example for DIG36, Total Return Swap with Floating Return Leg. Please see the book US GAAP for Life Insurers for further details on US GAAP accounting.

Description: This article focuses on the market risk benefit (MRB) measurement model and will examine a generic guaranteed minimum death benefit (GMDB) in the context of LDTI and its impact from both the ceding entity and the reinsurer standpoints.

Description: Presents a step-by-step methodology for calculating confidence intervals for IBNR estimates derived using the Averaqe PMPM method. It is a companion article to the January 2023 Health Watch article presenting the Average PMPM method for generating point estimates of IBNR with zero claims runout.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - PBR: Ask the Experts: Life and Fixed Annuities Recording