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  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Term Insurance Earnings
    reserve true up—unlocking, additional accrual, and direct offset. Table 5 illustrates those components, with ... predictable effect is a direct result of the matching principle. Since the primary purpose of the reserve ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • The Financial Reporter
    interactions. I t allows one to identify and thereby direct more effort to key assumptions or variables to ... multiple life, h e a l t h , annuity and long-term care structures. I s s u e s raised by the ACLI included ...

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    • Authors: James W Lamson, Max Rudolph, Raymond Ted Schlude, John F Bevacqua, Ronald Harasym, Andres Vilms, Rebecca Wang, Michelle Smith, Tara J P Hansen, SARA L SKOKAN
    • Date: Sep 2003
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • The Financial Reporter, September 2017, Issue 110
    case of a reinsurer providing experi- ence to a direct writer to use in setting the mortality assumption ... based on credibility levels but should be used with care. The width of the distribution of reinsurer experience ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: 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; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • Implementation of ASU 2010-26
    selecting the historical starting point, to which we direct the interested reader. 2. Can a company use ... guidance as to reasonable estimates, to which we direct the interested reader. In our experience, most ...

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    • Authors: Thomas W Fineis, Jeffrey Lortie, Kathryn Marie Egan
    • Date: Jun 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • The Financial Reporter
    information is supple- mentary to the company’s primary published financial statements (for example, U ... financial options and guarantees. This principle is a direct response to those concerns. This principle is ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Errol Cramer, Jerry Enoch, Mark Freedman, William R Horbatt, Carol A Marler, John D Morrison, Vincent Y Y Tsang, Laura J Hay, Donald Solow, Thomas R Auvinen
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Reinsurance Considerations in Developing an Insurance Accounting Standard
    sensiTiViTY 1 (DiRecT Gain, ReinsuRance Gain) To illustrate the scenario of a direct gain and a reinsurance ... Reinsurance Considerations … | fRoM pagE 5 Direct Gain, Reins Loss Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 ...

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    • Authors: Albert Li, Andy Ferris, Darryl Wagner
    • Date: Dec 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
  • The Financial Reporter
    management strategies includ- ing actions by both direct writers and reinsurers. MOVING TARGET Another ... practices. The commonly held view is that the primary purpose of the Act is to manage systemic risk ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2013
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • No-See-Ums
    update describes it: “Variable fee approach for direct participation contracts “The IASB tentatively ... tentatively decided that, for insurance contracts with direct participation fea- tures, it would modify its gen- ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • The Financial Reporter, December 2018, Issue 115
    held. The way in which this model is applied to direct participating contracts, referred to as the variable ... the way in which the general model is applied to direct partici- pating contracts, referred to as the variable ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • A Review of Root Cause in Insurer Insolvencies
    liability; Life & Annuity, Health including long- term care (LTC); and Health cooperatives. Figure 1 Number ... circumstances. Some insurer insolvencies point to one primary causal driver, such as fraud. However, a majority ...

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    • Authors: Veronika Cooper, David Heppen
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments