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  • Using Relevant Experience Data to Increase Credibility and Reduce Margins
    like policies in the mortality segment. c. The company experience mortality rates shall not be ... lower than the mortality rates the company expects to emerge, which the company can justify and which ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • 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: Small Talk
    • 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
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Unlocking Persistency
    that noise. Both articles examined effects when mortality devi- ates from the original valuation assumption ... assumption. In contrast to earlier illustrations of mortality, persistent lapse variances and the eventual ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0
    Figure 2 adds the extrapolated adjustment to Figure 1’s term insurance illustration. Rather than drifting ... Statements Prepared in Accordance with U.S. GAAP ASOP 10’s section 3.3 (Best Estimate Assumptions) says ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • June Webinar Topic: Sensitivity Testing and Setting Margins, Plus a Fully Stochastic PBR Method
    experience assumption, normally in the form of a table of decrement rates 2. Experience study data for ... ratio between the observed experience and the table from number 1 3. When experience study data are ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • GAAP Targeted Opportunity
    old problem in a new way. TRUE UP FOR ACTUAL MORTALITY EXPERIENCE Figure 1 shows quarterly income for ... experience is performed only once each year and the mortality assumption is changed at the beginning of year ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Adventures in 2008 Cash Flow Testing
    yield curve was reflecting the intense demand for U.S. treasuries—the flight to quality. The savvy folks ... to solving it. Depending upon which product line(s) failed, ideas were generated. If the participating ...

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    • Authors: Sharon Giffen, Donald Walker
    • Date: Jun 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • A Means Of Comparing Unit Reserve On Different Valuation Bases
    between the two organizations, SOA staffed a round-table discussion of current research issues at ARIA’s ... compare different reserve bases. Formula B in Table 1 enables a dura- tion-by-duration comparison of ...

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    • Authors: Henry R Ramsey
    • Date: Sep 1988
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Asset Modeling Challenges for VM-20 Projections
    Asset Modeling Challenges for VM-20 Projections This article describes methods for ... year of the NAIC VM-20 transition period under the U.S. life insurance industry’s belt, there has been significant ...

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    • Authors: Benjamin Slutsker, Reanna Nicholsen, Jason Kehrberg
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling