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  • PBR, How Shall I Examine Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
    for each policy is output from the system. The primary tasks involved in auditing or examining such a ... high-risk area because it has not histori- cally been a direct component of financial reporting, at least for ...

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    • Authors: Patricia Matson, Andrew Rarus, Leslie Jones
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Actuarial Aspects of SOX 404
    whether the processes are con- nected with the direct production of financial results. Some have also ... taking corrective action As the PCOAB stated, “the primary benefit of an effective internal control structure… ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Laura J Hay
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: Communication; Communication>Difficult message delivery; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • An Update on International Accounting Standards for Insurance
    these develop- ments. The IAA now serves as the primary voice of the actuarial profession on international ... contracts where payment is in services (e.g., managed care organizations), and a number of other types of ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Moore
    • Date: Jun 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Dynamic Assumption-Setting for Variable and Non-Variable Annuities
    significant impact in the presence of the GLWB. Care must be taken in inter- preting these data for VAs ... higher than the cor- responding rates in Exhibit 3. Care must be taken in modeling contracts in this benefit ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Policyholder behavior - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities
  • The Home Stretch
    fixed-fee service contracts that have as their primary purpose the provision of services. The boards ... related to successful acquisition efforts; and b) direct costs that are related to the acquisition of a ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Financial Reporter
    may be conceptually viewed as consisting of four primary components: (1) unamortized deferred acquisition ... pricing for substan- dard mortality and long-term care pricing would involve condition C, and so on. In ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Jerry Enoch, Larry M Gorski, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Laura J Hay, John F Bevacqua, Scott E Wright, Keith Terry
    • Date: Mar 2003
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Financial reporting September, 2016
    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: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial Reporter
    same manner as the release of the corresponding direct single/ residual margin (i.e., in line with the ... same manner in which an insurer should evaluate a direct insurance contract. Of course, as noted, the two ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2012
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • PBA Corner
    calls this amount of assets the Required Level of Primary Security, the calculation of which is based directly ... consisting of Primary Security in an amount at least at great as the Required Level of Primary Security ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Mar 2015
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • What’s a Moderately Adverse Interest Rate Scenario, Anyway?
    scenario sets, specifically the NY7, remain the primary (and in many cases, the only) scenario sets used ... covered by the report and one should take extreme care in trying to apply these analyses or results in ...

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    • Authors: Mark Alberts
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation