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  • Small Talk Newsletter, June 2002, Issue No. 18
    and adapt to new types of catastrophic risk, many direct writing insurance companies are facing new decisions ... before reinsurance on regular death claims? Many direct writers, including smaller companies, also find ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph, Godfrey Perrott, James Thompson, Maria Thomson, Steven Siegel, Scott J Cipinko, R. Dale Hall, Robert Stone, John Riley
    • Date: Jun 2002
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Session 33 - Accelerated Underwriting Research
    sent to direct companies and reinsurers  28 companies with AU programs responded to the direct company ...  Several others without programs responded to direct company survey to answer our questions regarding ...

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    • Authors: Allen Klein, Karen Rudolph, Ronora Stryker
    • Date: Aug 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance
  • PBA Corner
    enacted by states representing 75 percent of the direct premium written in 2008 and same or similar legislation ... (using the LATF adoption version of mortality) on a direct basis for ULSG is -3 percent to -15 percent with ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Jan 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • Understanding VM-20 Results
    actuaries interviewed view resources as their primary near-term need with VM-20 implementation looming ... segment. Mortality and policyholder lapse are primary to the principle-based valuation, and we will focus ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph, Seng Siang Goh, William Hines, Michael Y Nam, William Sayre, David Wang, Tung Tran
    • Date: Aug 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • The Financial Reporter
    secondary guarantee (ULSG) products. This is a direct result of New York’s rejection of the Actuarial ... mates of fulfillment cash flows for an underlying direct insurance contract that are recognized immediately ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Frank Grossman, William Sayre, Francis de Regnaucourt, Karen Rudolph, Henry Siegel, R Thomas Herget, R Inglis
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Pensions & Retirement
  • Overview of Nonguaranteed Elements (NGEs)
    earliest generation of UL products was there a direct linkage of anticipated experience factors and ... purpose of the NGE exercise. For example, the primary purpose of cash flow testing is to determine ...

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    • Authors: David N Cook, Zohair Motiwalla, Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Nov 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Annuities; Life Insurance
  • PBA Corner
    PBA Corner Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF ... guaranteed gross premiums are only defined on a direct basis. The LATF VM-20 Subgroup members have decided ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Sep 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • PBA Corner
    PBA Corner Update on State Adoption of SVL, NY Reg 147, 179, LICONY's response, ACLI small ... secondary guarantee (ULSG) products. This is a direct result of New York’s rejection of the Actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Statistics and the Valuation Manual
    error margin of ≤ 5%. Bühlmann method can use the direct approximation formula for Z provided in VM- 20 ... margin of ≤ 5%. Bühlmann method can use the direct approximation formula for Z provided in VM-20 ...

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    • Authors: Steven Craighead, Douglas Robbins, Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Aug 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
  • PBA Corner
    met to be exempt: 1. The insurer has annual direct written premium less than $500,000,000, and 2 ... group of which the insurer is a member has annual direct written premium less than $1,000,000,000. The ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Enterprise Risk Management; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting