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  • Current Financial Reporting Topics in the United States
    (OPEBs). The discussions have focused mainly on health care cost trends, discount rates, recognition criteria ... companies that have to register with the SEC as a primary registrant or because they sponsor a mutual fund ...

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    • Authors: William Carroll, Arnold Dicke, Paul F Kolkman, James D Wallace
    • Date: Jun 1990
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial Reporting Issues for Health Insurers
    of this year, or early next year. One of the primary drivers of trying to broaden that concept is to ... health business. If you meet the health- insurance primary test for two consecutive years, then the year after ...

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    • Authors: Darrell Knapp, John Crooks, David L Brown
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Strategic Planning
    through agents consider their agents to be their primary customers rather than the end buyers. In many cases ... the traditional paradigm that the agent is the primary customer, are basically ceding their potential ...

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    • Authors: Mark F Howland, David A Ricci, H Shumrak
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Impact of Demutualization on Actuarial Careers
    investor relations in the company. It has become a primary function. We really didn't have investor relations ... through acquisitions. Of course, there should be direct access to the capital markets. Who is Sun Life ...

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    • Authors: Douglas W Brooks, Michael Harwood, John Morris, Robert Vrolyk
    • Date: Jun 2000
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Professional Values>Public interest representation
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Public Policy
  • GAAPs Around the World
    Hartford. He worked in various roles, such as managed care pricing, reinsurance financial reporting, and corporate-owned ... various rotations in life valuations, long-term-care pricing, and disability management. I managed a ...

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    • Authors: Alain Béland, Kenneth Joyce, Gregory Smith
    • Date: Jun 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Global Perspectives
  • Expense Analysis and Allocation
    a couple of reasons. First of all, there is no direct control over the validity of any individual's allocation ... business was made. Those profits considered only the direct expense 616 DISCUSSION--CONCURRENT SESSIONS ...

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    • Authors: Raymond A Bierschbach, Joseph R Brzezinski, Michael L Smith, Frederick S Townsend
    • Date: Jul 1977
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Profit Standards And Analysis Of Earnings For Insurance Companies
    are assuming. Within Allstate Life, we have two primary lines of business, Personal and Group, with a series ... (2-100 lives) 3. Corporate In-House Accounts 4. Direct Response B. Northbrook Life General Agencies (2-200 ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Wayne Schreck, Matt E Simon, Frederick S Townsend, John Yanko
    • Date: Apr 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Methods For Determining And Adjusting Contingency Benchmark Surplus
    properly computed contingency surplus level. A direct corollary of this first observation is that vitality ... do. However, there are practical reasons. The primary practical reason is to attain or retain an acceptable ...

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    • Authors: Joseph J Buff, David L Creswell, Gregory D Jacobs, Gerald A Lockwood, Michael L Zurcher, Eric A Broedel
    • Date: May 1989
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • New Product Accounting Alternatives
    income because the investment function is the primary service performed. The issues paper suggests two ... least, are unit expenses. We monitor those very care- fully. Like many companies, we have an inflation ...

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    • Authors: Timothy V Bechtold, John T Glass, Jan Pollnow, Steven Stoner, William T Tozer
    • Date: Oct 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: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial Management Issues for Multinational Insurers
    adjustments, and also U.S. tax adjustments. The primary GAAP adjustments are to record realized capital ... reinsurance does accomplish this goal very well. Care must be taken, however, with reinsurance in emerging ...

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    • Authors: Mark Freedman, Graham Mackay, Bruce Moore, R James Tosti
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Global Perspectives>Multinational companies