Description: COLIFR Committee on Life Insurance Financial Reporting Corner briefly discusses curent issues such as RBC, GMDB for Variable Life, reservinf for VAGLBs, reserves for Equity Index UL, GAAP DAC for internal replacements an a proposed revised AOMR.

Description: The “X” Factor — Are You Ready? by Larry Gorski from The Financial Reporter, June 2000, Issue No. 42.

Description: Feature article discussing what it means to be market-consistent and whether or not insurance products can be priced and valued in a market-consistent fashion. This article addresses the limits to market consistency by questioning whether there in fact can be a market-consistent level annual premium for a term life insurance contract.

Description: This article compares earnings emergence under five popular world-wide accounting bases for two insurance products, term life and fixed deferred annuity.

Description: A discussion of regulatory oversight of PBR with two former regulators to give some insight into how your company should be preparing for new PBR requirements.

Description: Presents a practical solution to some of the distortion caused by a typical application of the retrospective assumption update (unlocking) method.

Description: Feature article discussing the possibility of written options being an asset.

Description: A description of the controversy surrounding Actuarial Guideline 38 (AG38) and the joint working group that was formed to address the controversies.

Description: Illustrates the effects of different approaches to updating GAAP valuation assumptions for traditional life contracts.

Description: This article summarizes five key lessons we have learned in implementing LDTI and shares our insights on practical ways to address them. This is not an exhaustive list of implementation challenges, but companies that can successfully tackle the issues we describe should have a smoother data and systems implementation transition.