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  • Introducing a New Practice Note on Purchase GAAP Accounting
    also dealing with business combinations subject to U.S. statutory accounting and tax laws, and that such ... practice note includes significant refer- ence to U.S. statutory and tax accounting, beginning with the ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Bridging the GAAP: IFRS 17 and LDTI Differences Explored
    contract should not be grouped with a deferred annuity contract for the purposes of measurement. Both ... for projected cash surrender value on a deferred annuity, for which the projected cash surrender value is ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Mackenzie, Tina Guo
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • A Letter from the Chairperson...GAAP ROE: Exactly How Meaningful Is It?
    status quo in analyzing our traditional risks like mortality, morbidity and lapses. Volatility of these items ... Gorski 18 Federal Tax Issues Under the 2001 CSO Mortality Tables — This article thoroughly exam- ines federal ...

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    • Authors: John F Bevacqua
    • Date: Mar 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Finance & Investments>Embedded value; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • OCI OK
    three popular accounting systems (US GAAP, IFRS and U.S. statutory) revealed: US GAAP: A Sept. 30, 2010 ... or loss) within IFRS.” U.S. Statutory: Instructions for preparing the U.S. statutory statement include ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Setting Ascribed Premiums for Market Risk Benefits under FASB Targeted Improvements
    benefit (GMxB) guaran- tees embedded in variable annuity contracts clearly fall under this definition. ... each of the three alternatives are summa- rized in Table 1. DISCUSSIONS Comparing the three alternatives ...

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    • Authors: Shaowei Yang, David Ruiz
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • 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]
  • Addendum to Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Constraints
    When there is a type 2 loss, the original article’s capping of nNPR in the nLFPBt formula overstates the ... greater than one. The added complexity in this formula’s NPR multiplier corrects this error. To measure direct ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2023
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • Unlocking of Traditional Contract Assumptions
    of change depend on the method used as shown in Table 1. In the absence of constraints (not considered ... considered in this short article), we can see in Table 1 the fundamental characteristics of the prospective ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: 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
  • LDTI Disclosures—Average Duration and Interest
    Reporter, April 2022 Among the requirements of GAAP’s “Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration ... rate might be derived by (a) weighting each cohort’s average discount rate by its LFPB, or (b) finding ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich, Charles K Chacosky
    • Date: Mar 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • FASB Long Duration Insurance Contracts Redeliberations
    the discount rate to use for discounting payout annuity benefits back to the anticipated annuitization ... undiscounted amounts. For universal life con- tracts a table would be required showing guaranteed and current ...

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    • Authors: Leonard Reback
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Guaranteed living benefits; Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Building a Narrative Around LDTI Discount Rate Updates
    and how they relate to one another can explain LDTI's discounting conventions and potential impacts on surplus ... sloping yield curve and discarding the prior year's initial discount rate. When doing the valuation in ...

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    • Date: Apr 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]