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  • Resolution of Circularity Issues in SOP 03-1
    date” (para- graph 31). An example is a two-tier annuity where the lower-tier balance is available on cash ... becomes apparent: Expected gross profit depends on mortality and/or annuitization liabilities, which depend ...

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    • Authors: Michael Lesar
    • Date: Aug 2004
    • 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Impacts of AG 48
    6,508 16 | DECEMBER 2015 FINANCIAL REPORTER Table 1 SEPTEMBER 2015 INTERNATIONAL NEWS | 17 value ... approach using company specific assumptions. Table 2 is an illustrative ex- ample for the transaction ...

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    • Authors: Francis Rahil, Keith Bucich, John Shaw
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: 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>Statutory accounting
  • Embedded Derivatives in Modco and Similar Reinsurance Arrangements
    18 More Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation for Mortality Assumption Testing — This article describes a ... Generalized Mortality Table Analysis — Companies usually use a stan- dard industry table with scaling ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Setting the Level of Margins in a Principles-Based Valuation Using a Cost-of-Capital Approach with Exponential Utility
    character- ized by U (x) = e-kx. That is, the utility of profits equal to best estimates is U (0) = 1, and ... the equation, given values of ROE, i and r. The table below shows values of k as they depend on ROE and ...

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    • Authors: Stephen Strommen
    • Date: Jun 2006
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Considerations for Indexed Universal Life under PBR
    which is believed to be an unintended result. In Table 1, a profit measure is presented for each scenario ... increased crediting rate seen after policy year 20. Table 1 Profit Measure Percentile of SR scenarios PV ...

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    • Authors: Ye Yang, Erzhe Zhang, Nicholas Dunn
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; 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>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • The Lowly Loss Ratio
    consider the familiar recur- sive formula for the annuity function. Here, is the claim reserve, is the claim ... assumed that our claim reserve is a quasi life annuity calculation. But these principles are equally valid ...

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    • Authors: Paul Margus
    • Date: Dec 2007
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • The Art of Asset Adequacy Testing
    reflect discounting. Margins on Best-Estimate Mortality Assumptions In the interest of assessing the economics ... reserves (PBR) (most recent guidance on margins for mortality in the United States) will specify mar- gins on ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Rostislav Zilber, Jeremy Johns
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • GAAP Targeted Opportunity
    old problem in a new way. TRUE UP FOR ACTUAL MORTALITY EXPERIENCE Figure 1 shows quarterly income for ... experience is performed only once each year and the mortality assumption is changed at the beginning of year ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • 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
  • OCI OK
    three popular accounting systems (US GAAP, IFRS and U.S. statutory) revealed: US GAAP: A Sept. 30, 2010 ... or loss) within IFRS.” U.S. Statutory: Instructions for preparing the U.S. statutory statement include ...

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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; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Estimating Incurred But Not Reported Life Claims
    of policies in force and q(i) is the expected mortality rate associated with policy i. If you are going ... has been taken to be 300,000. The follow- ing table shows some representative sets of values: α β σ ...

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    • Authors: Alfred Raws
    • Date: Dec 2005
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance