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  • Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Universal Life Earnings
    amortized into assessments. Thus, they have no direct effect on DAC amortization. Their secondary effect ... Contract: The contract holder has the ability to direct funds to one or more separate account investment ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • Setting Ascribed Premiums for Market Risk Benefits under FASB Targeted Improvements
    Contract: The contract holder has the ability to direct funds to one or more separate account investment ... Avoiding a GAAP equity restatement may be the primary con- sideration because many companies use return ...

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    • Authors: Shaowei Yang, David Ruiz
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Bridging the GAAP: IFRS 17 and LDTI Differences Explored
    Bridging the GAAP: IFRS 17 and LDTI Differences Explored This article discusses key considerations ... e., reserve remains zero and GAAP profits are a direct function of cash flows with the exception of DAC ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Mackenzie, Tina Guo
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • Purchase GAAP for Equity-Indexed Annuities
    derivatives at issue. This guidance is very helpful for direct writers because the basis of the hybrid contract ... being comparable with the practice used by the direct writer, reinsurance premium can be used as the ...

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    • Authors: Vincent Y Y Tsang
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • 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: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Two New Bases, One Big Transformation— Thoughts on Concurrent Implementation of two Accounting Bases
    held. The way in which this model is applied to direct participating contracts, referred to as the variable ... the way in which the general model is applied to direct partici- pating contracts, referred to as the variable ...

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    • Authors: Aisling Metcalfe, Alexander Zaidlin, Gavin Stewart
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • The Financial Reporter, March 2018, Issue 112
    rate and a higher DR. The DR calculated using the direct iteration method (DIM), in addition to the SR ... tablescalcs-tools/research-scenario/. 3 VM-20 Section 4.B (direct iteration method) describes an approach in which ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Income Volatility Under LDTI
    Income Volatility Under LDTI This article is aimed to cover the following: 1) Provides an ... still equal to account value, and there are no direct changes to the SOP 03-1 liability.[3] The calculation ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner
    • Date: Feb 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • The Financial Reporter, June 2018, Issue 113
    Application of Asset Adequacy Testing to Long- Term Care Insurance Reserves (AG 51)” be incorporated and ... reserving standards for short- term and long- term care policies. Also, there are complexities that are ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • Practical Considerations for Implementing the New Statement of Position for Long Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts –Part II
    inducements. (I) REINSURANCE Besides affecting direct issuers of non- traditional LDC, SOP 03-1 also ... following reasons: • The ceding enterprise is the primary par ty r e spons ib l e f o r p rov id ing mortality ...

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    • Authors: David C Heavilin, Vincent Y Y Tsang
    • Date: Feb 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
  • On the Fair Value of Business Acquired part I of II
    been called the “fixed goodwill” method. Ordinary direct methods (such as the EITF method, see [5] pg. 390-391) ... article I will try to show why MdM is consistent with direct fair valuation of an insurer’s liabilities, which ...

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    • Authors: Joseph Koltisko
    • Date: Sep 2001
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]