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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
  • 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
  • Governance of Principle-Based Reserves
    (QA), who is designated by each company to take primary responsibility for the PBR valuation. But it’s ... maintaining a robust valuation process—thus achieving a primary goal of PBR! Statements of fact and opinions expressed ...

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    • Authors: Robert Leach
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: Professional Values
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy; Public Policy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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