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  • Fair Value Accounting
    you should be aware of is that there really is no direct effect on FAS 115 related to derivative hedge accounting ... different possible fair value accounting methods. The primary focus of that paper, though, is more on “how” than ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Luke Girard, George Silos, Douglas W Johnson
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Financial Reporting Research Update Update on research projects sponsored by the Financial Reporting ... By Jim Hawke and Ronora Stryker Research is a primary mission of the Financial Reporting Section and ...

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    • Authors: James S Hawke
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Financial Reporting Research Update Update on research projects sponsored by the Financial Reporting ... By Jim Hawke and Ronora Stryker Research is a primary mission of the Financial Reporting Section and ...

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    • Authors: James S Hawke
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157 - SFAS 157 - Fair Value Measurements, Including Introduction to Cost of Capital Risk Margins
    own credit risk. Duran introduced an additional direct method for computing FVL and has also addressed ... appropriate risk margin that can be used with a direct meth- od (which would be preferred by most accounting ...

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    • Authors: Kenneth LaSorella
    • Date: Jun 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Market-Value Accounting
    liabilities. In simplified terms, there are two primary ways to determine the fair value; you can set the ... semiarbitrary class of available-for-sale assets. Would you care to comment on that? MR. HOHMANN: I think the observation ...

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    • Authors: James Hohmann, Douglas C Kolsrud, James D Wallace, Matthew Clayton Modisett
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Accounting Change for Variable Annuities With Implications on Hedging
    defines a special class of “insurance contracts with direct participation features,” for which the insurance ... annuities will be considered insurance contracts with direct participation features and will follow a variation ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner, Robert Frasca
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; 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
  • Market-Value Balance Sheet
    position of insurance companies is clearly needed by primary users of financial information. However, the process ... draft does not definethe concept, so as to either direct the mechanics or restrict possible variations.

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    • Authors: Keith A Drzal, Reed Miller, Robert Stein, Wayne S Upton
    • Date: Oct 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • The Impact of Fair Value Accounting on the“Normal” Rate Curve—A Speculation
    The Impact of Fair Value Accounting on the“Normal” Rate Curve—A Speculation The author speculates ... The Short and Long of Bond Demand Among the primary consumers of long fixed-rate debt are life insurance ...

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    • Authors: Jeremy Gold
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
  • Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities
    that policyholders are going to be safely taken care of. The problem with statutory accounting comes ... think it really solves the problem. This is the direct method versus the indirect method, or constructive ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Steven H Mahan, S Michael McLaughlin, David A Ricci
    • Date: Jun 1998
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • The Bullet GIC as an Example
    approaches presented by Babbel, Gold and Merrill involve direct discounting of liability cash flows. However, current ... ings at a hurdle rate. Many observers feel that direct discounting and the actuarial appraisal method ...

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    • Authors: Jeremy Gold, David F Babbel, Craig Merrill
    • Date: Feb 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting