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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, 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]
  • Speaking The New Lingo—A US GAAP Codification Primer
    Speaking The New Lingo—A US GAAP Codification Primer This article was first published in 2010 ... of materials in ASC, it is anticipated that the primary method for accessing the information in ASC will ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Van Dam
    • Date: Jul 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gaining Trust in Predictive Models—an Actuarial Perspective
    model, however, the choice of model is often the primary focus. Given the wide variety of possible options ... and false negatives is better. Data One of the primary factors in model selection will be the data. The ...

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    • Authors: David Alison FSA (David)
    • Date: Sep 2021
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics>Modeling techniques; Predictive Analytics>Quality control & model governance; Technology & Applications>Artificial intelligence & machine learning
  • 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
  • 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]