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  • Using Relevant Experience Data to Increase Credibility and Reduce Margins
    experience from other sources in setting a company’s mortality experience assumption: b. Company experience ... company experience for books of business within the mortality segment. ii. Experience from other books of ...

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    • Authors: Marianne C Purushotham, Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Almost Success!
    Almost Success! Describes current developments in the IASB's Insurance Contracts Project. ... Describes current developments in the IASB's Insurance Contracts Project. International Accounting ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Term Insurance Earnings
    decision-making pro-cess for targeted improvements to U.S. GAAP for long-duration insurance contracts, the ... expected under original best estimate assumptions. Table 1 Expected Income Statement Current Improved Difference ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • Dynamic Assumption-Setting for Variable and Non-Variable Annuities
    Marianne Purushotham and Mark Birdsall An nu al S ur re nd er R at e 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% ... lowing contract benefit utiliza- tion categories in Table 1. Exhibit 2 shows rates of full surrender by ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Policyholder behavior - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities
  • Education & Examination Redesign—An Update
    Actuaries willundergo significant changes effective in 2000. The current system will be replaced with a system ... next year,” the SOA doesn’t have that luxury since 2000 is almost here. Course 5 will cover underlying ...

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    • Authors: Larry M Gorski
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Qualifications; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Reporting and Disclosure Requirements Under VM-31: Reporting Requirements for Business Subject to PBR
    discussing such issues as levels of aggrega- tion for mortality experience, the various requirements related ... compare to actual historical experience. 3. Mortality assumptions: The report requires a detailed expla- ...

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    • Authors: Gaurav Rastogi
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • No-See-Ums
    contracts were identical. How this will affect U.S. policies re- mains to be seen. In addition, the ... without a specific term (e.g., for an immediate annuity)? One suggestion is that if the max- imum life ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Considerations for Indexed Universal Life under PBR
    which is believed to be an unintended result. In Table 1, a profit measure is presented for each scenario ... increased crediting rate seen after policy year 20. Table 1 Profit Measure Percentile of SR scenarios PV ...

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    • Authors: Ye Yang, Erzhe Zhang, Nicholas Dunn
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • How is Your Management Quotient?
    insight or the scope of the documentation. The table below shows the cross section of responses by company ... were received to be meaningful or reportable. The table below provided the percentages of CAs indicating ...

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    • Authors: Stephen N Patzman
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice
  • PBA Corner
    terminations to be based on assumptions for mortality and lapse resident in the model. The unexpected ... up to this point would track both NPR and DR. Table 1 shows one example of how the reserve change in ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting