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  • 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
  • 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]
  • Canterbury Tales of Fair Value Fair Value ofLife Insurance Seminar—March 1999
    Canterbury Tales of Fair Value Fair Value ofLife Insurance Seminar—March 1999 Canterbury Tales ... of the conference include (a) reconciliation of direct and indirect methods (i.e. option pricing with ...

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    • Authors: Joan Lamm-Tennant, S Michael McLaughlin
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Discount Rates in US GAAP Targeted Improvements
    Discount Rates in US GAAP Targeted Improvements We explore the considerations regarding discount ... informed interpretations and choices. One of the primary paragraphs in ASU 2018-12 addressing the topic ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner
    • Date: Jun 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • 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
  • 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