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  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Financial Reporting Research Update An update on the SOA's financial reporting research ... By Jim Hawke and Ronora Stryker Research is a primary mission of the Financial Reporting Sec-tion and ...

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    • Authors: James S Hawke, Ronora Stryker
    • Date: Jun 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • Accounting Change for Variable Annuities With Implications on Hedging
    defines a special class of “insurance contracts with direct participation features,” for which the insurance ... annuities will be considered insurance contracts with direct participation features and will follow a variation ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner, Robert Frasca
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Exposure Draft of Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Long- Duration Insurance Contracts
    benefits would be fair valued, consistent with the direct benefit. I think this makes sense in most situa- ... since it avoids an accounting mismatch between the direct benefit and the ceded benefit, but I don’t think ...

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    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Convergence Once Again
    same manner as the release of the corresponding direct single/ residual margin (i.e., in line with the ... same manner in which an insurer should evaluate a direct insurance contract. Of course, as noted, the two ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Practical Considerations To Implement And Productionalize VM-20
    Practical Considerations To Implement And Productionalize VM-20 Discussing human resource, computing ... dictions that represent at least 75 percent of direct premiums to adopt the new Standard Valuation Law ...

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    • Authors: Jason Kehrberg
    • Date: Mar 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • The Risk Adjustment—Accounting Perspectives
    benefits, including participating features, and direct expenses, including acquisition costs. Inflows ... is potentially a significantly lower amount than direct costs at the portfolio level. 22 | MARCH ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Implementation Perspectives On Solvency II Internal Model Standards
    Implementation Perspectives On Solvency II Internal Model Standards Considerations when developing ... independence when the model owner also acts as a primary validator. Segregation of duties is of particular ...

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    • Date: Mar 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • Questions
    Questions Feature article asking seven questions raised by the IASB’s and FASB’s recent changes ... (relying on seg- ment level disclosures) so they don’t care. Still others I ’m writing this just after Andy ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
  • Why FASB Is Right And IASB Is Wrong About Risk Adjustments In Insurance Company Accounts
    Why FASB Is Right And IASB Is Wrong About Risk Adjustments In Insurance Company Accounts Feature ... are developed, “it is not possible to perform direct back tests to assess retrospectively whether a ...

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    • Authors: Christopher D O'Brien
    • Date: Dec 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • Spring Cleaning
    Insurance Contracts. Segregated Assets Related to Direct Performance Linked Insurance Contracts The board ... decided the following: 1. The liability for “direct performance linked insur- ance contracts” and ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]