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  • Insurance Accounting as a Black Hole
    Insurance Accounting as a Black Hole Discussion of the latest FASB and IASB updates with respect ... portfolio of insurance contracts should be all the direct costs that the insurer will incur in acquiring ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
  • Revisiting FAS 97’s Management Potential
    Variance Asset default is an assessment. It has no direct effect on any other component of gross profits ... is assumed to be insignificant compared to the direct effect on mortality costs. We’ll estimate the ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Public Policy
  • Sub-Atomic Accounting
    Sub-Atomic Accounting Summarizes the discussions over the past quarter between the IASB and the ... however, is that for contracts like long term care, there is a potentially long distance between the ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • 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]
  • PBR Simplified Methods Project
    PBR Simplified Methods Project Summary of the SOA research project on PBR Simplified Methods. ... future projects. Rate increase filings for long-term care and state examinations of PBR are two areas that ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees; Life Insurance>Term life; Life Insurance>Universal life; Life Insurance>Whole life; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Conditional Tail Expectation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Tax Considerations in Actuarial Projections
    Tax Considerations in Actuarial Projections This article discusses the importance of refining ... projecting the costs of policy benefit updates, care should be taken to avoid the deemed internal exchange ...

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    • Authors: Edward Robbins, Stephen Baker
    • Date: Dec 2011
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0
    GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0 Presents a practical solution to some of the ... guaranteed renewable disability income and long-term care insurance for which a separate “disabled life reserve” ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • The Financial Reporter, March 2017
    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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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • A Framework for Managing Surplus
    A Framework for Managing Surplus A Framework for Managing Surplus by David N. Becker from The ... and convexities of the various asset classes. But care must be taken so that the duration and convexi- ...

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    • Authors: David N Becker
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments