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  • Product Development in the Age of Risk-Based Capital
    investmentfor just the traditional profits. The most direct way to factor RBC in your pricing is to just add ... having highly capitalized affiliates underneath the primary company. If you collapse them all down, not only ...

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    • Authors: Gregory D Jacobs, John Dawson
    • Date: Jun 1993
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy
  • Recent And Future Underwriting Trends
    support. Congressman Florio, one of the bill's primary supporters, hopes to pass the bill yet this year ... fraught with difficulties for the underwriter. The primary problem is that the mentally retarded comprise ...

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    • Authors: William M Loucks, Donald MacDonald, Melvin C McFall, Henry D Shaw
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Accelerated Benefits
    individual life, as it's marketed by agents, and in direct response sales, and for group life insurance. This ... face-to-face agent sales. The rules for group and direct response products are slightly different, mostly ...

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    • Authors: Stanton L Cole, George S Quillan, Eleanor S Hartley, Nancy Baran, Erica B Querfeld
    • Date: Jun 1993
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Term Insurance Developments
    important. Demographics, in my opinion, are the primary determiner of persistency and mortality. Not everybody ... a temporary need, it has to be a salesperson's primary product. Otherwise it is sold only to those people ...

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    • Authors: Armand de Palo, Kin K Gee, William Schnaer, Ronald A Colligan
    • Date: Apr 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • GAAP Issues
    this is a really strange situation. You have the direct contract, but you couldn't set up a liability ... that the additional benefits do not become the primary benefits of the replacement contract. An example ...

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    • Authors: Robert Frasca, David C Scheinerman, Laura J Hay, John F Bevacqua
    • Date: Sep 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Public Policy
  • Current Group Life Topics
    protection. The individual agent is still the primary focus of life insurance marketing efforts. How- ... group life coverage is solicited through personal direct mail to the individual member on behalf of the ...

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    • Authors: Robert H Hoskins, James E Johnson, Joseph W Moran
    • Date: Oct 1979
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Group plans - Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Changes In The Canadian Regulatory Framework For Life Insurance
    the business of banking. Until recently, their primary desire was to get broadened securities underwriting ... alternative of letting the state guaranty funds take care of the Baldwin problem, companies had to assess ...

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    • Authors: Gerald M Devlin, Robin B Leckie, Karen G Long, Donald McIsaac, Richard Minck
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Actuarial Guideline XXXIV/Minimum Guaranteed Benefits for Variable Annuities
    it was unclear to me whether this product was a direct result of equity-indexed annuities, or whether ... There are several important differences, and the primary one relates to market conduct. You do not have ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Campbell, Timothy J Ruark
    • Date: Jan 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Public Policy
  • Regulatory Expectations from Asset Adequacy Analysis
    adequacy standards. The insurance department's primary regulatory focus is the industry domiciled in ... reliance. If I 'm an actuary for a company and I direct a subordinate to do a certain set of calculations ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, John F Gies, Larry M Gorski, Mark D Peavy
    • Date: Jan 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Public Policy
  • Managing the Balance Sheet
    valuation dates, is reported below the line as a direct impact on retained earnings. Now we end up with ... MANAGING THE BALANCE SHEET I know stock analysts don't care for FAS 115 and how to reflect its impact in evaluating ...

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    • Authors: Joseph Dunn, R Thomas Herget, Norman E Hill, Christopher T Anderson
    • Date: May 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Public Policy