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  • U.S. GAAP Update
    The problem is that many direct writers get good reinsurance quotes. The direct writer wasn't comfortable ... years, whereas a lot of the reinsurers were. The direct company could get rid of its mortality risk or ...

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    • Authors: Robert B Thomas, Michael Hughes, Darin Zimmerman
    • Date: Oct 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB Disclosure, Accounting, and Reporting for Pension Plans
    of plan financial reporting by identifying the primary objective of plan financial statements. FASBREPORTING ... FASBREPORTING FOR PENSION PLANS 721 We decided that the primary objective should be to provide financial information ...

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    • Authors: Robert L Bein, Warren D Orloff, Jules M Cassel
    • Date: Jun 1980
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Pensions & Retirement>Pension accounting
  • New Lines Of Business In An Established Company
    There I mentioned that it has been said that the primary job of management is to manage capital and that ... lines of business that a company generates, not by direct entry, but by acquiring another entity in that ...

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    • Authors: James H Charles, Michael Cowell, Larry R Robinson, Donald R Sondergeld, Nancy Stockmeyer
    • Date: Apr 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • 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]
  • New Products Accounting Alternatives
    relative levels of risks and functions performed. The primary performance and risk elements in a UL contract ... premium over the net premium) should be recognized in direct relation to premium revenues. In the absence of ...

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    • Authors: Edward F Bader, Shane A Chalke, Rex D Hemme, Linda L Wein
    • Date: Jun 1985
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Individual annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • New Products Accounting Alternatives
    management and mortality experience. Using these as the primary basis for profit recognition results in earnings ... Recommendation and Interpretation 1-1, which was a direct result of the AICPA/Academy task force dealing ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Bengtson, William J Schreiner, Edward Silins, Michael M Sonderby
    • Date: May 1985
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Individual annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance
  • GAAP Issues
    this is a really strange situation. You have the direct contract, but you couldn't set up a liability ... that the additional benefits do not become the primary benefits of the replacement contract. An example ...

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    • Authors: Robert Frasca, David C Scheinerman, Laura J Hay, John F Bevacqua
    • Date: Sep 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Public Policy
  • Solvency Standards For Life Companies In The United States, Canada, And The United Kingdom
    gone quasi-publlc and pay less attention to the primary entitle- ment of the investor than to the political ... to make good any deficiency of assets; or he may direct the Superintendent to take control of the company's ...

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    • Authors: Richard Humphrys, Edward A. Lew, Ronald S Skerman
    • Date: Apr 1976
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Global Perspectives
  • GAAP Refresher
    in relation to how complete a contract is. The primary focus in GAAP is really on earnings, and it has ... accounting standards setting to other parties. The primary body is the Financial Accounting Standards Board ...

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    • Authors: Robert Frasca, William Hines
    • Date: Nov 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Session 45: Dynamic Hedging - Fair Valuation for FAS 133
    are FAS 133 because they are net-settled. GMIB direct liabilities are not, because they're not net-settled ... main reasons why that is so. The first and primary reason, which Martin already alluded to, is that ...

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    • Authors: Ejaz Haroon, Martin Hall
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]