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  • Liquidity: How Much is Enough?
    (S&P). Neil is a senior analyst at S&P. He has primary responsibility for the analysis of 20 life insurance ... international insurers. He’s the analyst with primary responsibility for issues relating to liquidity ...

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    • Authors: Peter Tilley, Neil T Strauss, Jane E Kinney
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Where Did All the Mergers and Acquisitions Go?
    and product range. It brought them the long- term care and some market distribution that it didn't have ... business has been a primary driver on the life insurance side, and long-term care Where Did All the ...

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    • Authors: John Nigh, Laird D Zacheis, Stephen Fromm
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Securitized Assets - Cash Flow Traits
    modeled traditionally, but are worth looking at. The primary one is the economy. The economy is difficult to ... more. 1. Interest Differential - There are two primary forces that model the prepayment speeds: either ...

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    • Authors: Paul Haley, Michel Perreault, Peter A Minton, W David Woolford
    • Date: Apr 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • Does An Actuarial Bias Lead To Equity Investment?
    transparency, encourages equity holdings. The primary cause of opacity is pension actuarial science, ... is disguised by the present system but it is a direct implication of transparent accounting and arbitrage ...

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    • Authors: Jeremy Gold, Ethan Kra, Zvi Bodie
    • Date: May 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement
  • Demutualization
    them. 2. Stock ownership provides easier, more direct, and more substantial access to the public equity ... half of all the surplus remaining after you take care of the dividend prospects in the closed branch.

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    • Authors: Ira Friedman, David H Jungk, James H MacNaughton, Application Administrator, Walter Shur
    • Date: Apr 1985
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Public Policy
  • GICS and Other Insurance Company Products - Are They Still Alive?
    Variable assets are those that involve some more very direct participation in the capital market volatility ... Dimensions .= PartidpatingIndexed _ _-_---_ J I (Direct Rxed Tmdmon_n_t / _- . _. Product- / BankBalance ...

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    • Authors: Joseph J Buff, Daryle G Johnson, Judith Markland
    • Date: May 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Pensions & Retirement
  • Managing Currency Risks
    at First Chicago. In the first instance, our primary goal is to understand the risks that we are getting ... cleady needsto be lookedat with a fair amount of care, becausethe usualassumptionsfor the commercialbusinesslaw ...

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    • Authors: Camilo Salazar, Richard D Long, Steve R Lindo
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments
  • U.S. Federal Income Taxes
    long range tax hill, although that is not the primary focus of this open forum. During 1978 and 1979 ... that they are treated too favorably compared to direct investments and taxable savings such as bank accounts ...

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    • Authors: Charles G Bentzin, Stephen D Bickel, Albert P Burgess, Harold Cherry, James W Dederer, John H Elken, Ardian Gill, Ralph H Goebel, Allan D Greenberg, Douglas N Hertz, Carroll R Hutchinson, Jeffrey Miller, Richard Minck, Robert E Rich, Alan W Sibigtroth
    • Date: Oct 1982
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Life Insurance; Reinsurance
  • State-Of-The-Art Profit Measurement
    and participates in the overall management with direct responsibility for actuarial pricing, financial ... At my company, GAAP is still considered the primary financial measure. I'm not going to try and pull ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Dicke, Mark Milton, Kevin J Howard
    • Date: Jun 2001
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Buying and Selling Insurance Companies Internationally
    thing that you had to be doing, and you had to take care of the issues at hand. Obviously it's going to ... summary of the work that goes out to buyers. It's a primary indicator of value, as well as of the assumptions ...

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    • Authors: William R Horbatt, Shu-Yen Liu, Thomas Jaros, Jim Toole, Application Administrator
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Global Perspectives>Multinational companies