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  • Highlights of the March 2000 NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force Meeting
    Highlights of the March 2000 NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force Meeting Highlights of ... issues because of increased frequency of managed care organization insolvencies. Life & Health Actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Donald Maves
    • Date: Jun 2000
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Solvency II Update—QIS5 Results
    framework employed to manage these risks. The primary differ- ence from Solvency I is the treatment of ... the directive. For life insurance companies the primary driv- er of the SCR is market risk. In standard ...

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    • Authors: Steeve Jean, Seong-Min Eom, Patricio Henriquez
    • Date: Jun 2011
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
  • Insurance Capital Standards: Changes on the Horizon
    Insurance Capital Standards: Changes on the Horizon Feature article discussing expected future ... spread after deduc- tion for credit risk. The primary points of discussion relate to: 1. The criteria ...

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    • Authors: J Duran
    • Date: Jun 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • A Letter from the Chairperson...GAAP ROE: Exactly How Meaningful Is It?
    A Letter from the Chairperson...GAAP ROE: Exactly How Meaningful Is It? Discussion of how meaningful ... may be conceptually viewed as consisting of four primary components: (1) unamortized deferred acquisition ...

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    • Authors: John F Bevacqua
    • Date: Mar 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Embedded value; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Fair Value Accounting: Trouble-maker or Life-saver?
    have believed that fair value accounting is the primary driver of the financial crisis. For example, the ... article, however, would like to revisit the two primary purposes of financial reporting rather than immediately ...

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    • Authors: Larry Rubin, Xiaokai Shi, Nadezhda Toskova
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • 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]
  • PBA Corner
    RR100, RR125, and RR150. The RR100 table is the primary table for that risk class. • The 2015 VBT array ... tables. AG 38 8D Language in AG 38 8D.a.2 for the Primary Reserve Method- ology specifies the applicable ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • PBR Developments: What’s Going on with the Valuation Manual?
    PBR Developments: What’s Going on with the Valuation Manual? This article summarizes recent ... segment (the gross premium valuation method or the direct iteration method) be identified. For non-guaranteed ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Dicke, Leonard Mangini
    • Date: Sep 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Determining VM-20 Mortality for Accelerated Underwriting
    Determining VM-20 Mortality for Accelerated Underwriting As companies implement PBR, this article ... a new mortality segment to reflect the change, direct experience data may be limited. In that case, ...

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    • Authors: Matthew Monson, Benjamin Slutsker, Mark Sayre
    • Date: Sep 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance
  • Retrospective Assumption Monitoring
    Retrospective Assumption Monitoring This article describes a simple but powerful tool for use by ... expected reserve is generally not available for direct comparison to the reported reserve. But if we ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jul 2020
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]