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  • An ORSA Summary Report and ORSA Model Act Update
    Financial Reporter | september 2012 | 23 David S. Sherwood, is a director for KPMG in New York, ... ORSA Model Act Update By Seong-min Eom and David S. Sherwood T he National Association of Insurance ...

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    • Authors: Seong-Min Eom, David Sherwood
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
  • Responsibilities Of The Actuary For Communicating Sarbanes-Oxley Control: Effectiveness In Accordance With Actuarial Standards of Practice
    Financial Reporter December 2004 – Issue 59 S ection 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX)requires ... Processes Falling within the Scope of Sarbanes-Oxley Table 1 shows a list of valuation processes and steps ...

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    • Authors: Thomas R Auvinen
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: Communication; Communication>Difficult message delivery; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Caesar Salad Accounting
    residual margin over the coverage period to the period(s) in which the service is provided. The FASB tentatively ... problems. For instance, does a 10-year-certain life annuity have an investment component? The insurer pays ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Report on the Los Angeles Meeting of the IAA
    key respects. Actuaries in Canadian companies and U.S. actuaries working for foreign-owned companies, ... for example, will use IFRS. Actuaries for U.S. companies will use US GAAP. To be sure, US GAAP will ...

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    • Authors: James Milholland
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • The Mini-Series Continues
    By Frank Clapper 33 AG 33—Non Elective, Non Mortality—Update By John Blocher 34 Report on the IAA ... not have to be to the same assumption (e.g., a mortality loss could be followed by an expense gain) so ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • SEC Objects To Prospective Unlocking Of LTC Reserves
    SEC Objects To Prospective Unlocking Of LTC Reserves Earlier this year, the Securities ... represented the first time that this concept appeared in U.S. accounting literature, the prospec- tive unlocking ...

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    • Authors: Rowen Bell
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • A Retrospective Look at History
    little common sense is needed. The retrospective mortality rate on a living policyhold- er is obviously zero; ... liabilities typically reflect an assumption about mortality improvement in the future. On the other hand ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Differences Between FASB and IASB Could Lead to Two Accounting Models for Insurance
    the amount paid. Such features are common in many U.S. life insurance contracts, such as non-variable ... and this treatment may also be applicable to such U.S. contracts as variable life and annuities or closed ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; 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]
  • FASB & IASB Divergence
    FASB & IASB Divergence FASB decisions made regarding potential changes to US ... long-duration contracts. Actuaries whose work involves both U.S. business and business outside the United States ...

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    • Authors: Leonard Reback
    • Date: Jun 2014
    • 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • (Incredible, Unbelievable)
    (Incredible, Unbelievable) Current developments in IASB Accounting Standards;International Accounting ... insurance contract, as is of- ten the case in the U.S. for certain variable annuities, the entity would ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]