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  • Illuminating the Low Interest Rate Peril
    disclosure into ratings determinations. The NAIC should direct regulators to treat this information as supplemental ... companies with inadequate reserves: the first are “primary” reserving standards tailored to individual classes ...

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    • Authors: Aaron Sarfatti
    • Date: Jul 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Financial Reporter
    wonders why _____ was not mentioned as one of the primary topics of the meeting, I have several responses ... withheld liability” equal to the loan balance: Direct Writer Assets Liabilities Invested Assets Reserve ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Jerry Enoch, Donna Claire, Max Rudolph, Vincent Y Y Tsang, Larry Warren, John F Bevacqua, Douglas Robbins
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Chairperson’s Corner
    submissions!). This issue is yet another tribute to the care she brings to developing the newsletter. Regarding ... future IASB and FASB accounting direction. Also, I direct your attention to “Development and Use of Stochastically ...

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    • Authors: William Sayre
    • Date: Mar 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management
  • 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
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Mark Walker and Ronora Stryker Research is a primary mission of the Financial Reporting Section and ... implications to social, financial, retirement and health care systems. It involves a symposium which was held ...

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    • Authors: Mark A Walker, Ronora Stryker
    • Date: Sep 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • 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]
  • 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
  • Impacts of AG 48
    AG 48, which prescribes the Required Level of Primary Security based on the Actuarial Method, a modified ... VM-20, and the asset classes that can be held as Primary Security. ACTUARIAL GUIDELINE 48 On Dec. 16, 2014 ...

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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
  • 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