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  • Tax Update
    important element of both accounting systems. The primary purpose of the deferred tax concept is to account ... treatment, wherein changes in DTAs and DTLs are a direct adjustment to capital and surplus. • Other items ...

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    • Authors: Edward Robbins, Brian King
    • Date: Nov 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • Modeling CMOs
    which the facing small insurers who want to issue primary company will manage the equity-indexed annuities ... the in assets, has chosen to enter the equity- primary company can serve as the basis indexed marketplace ...

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    • Authors: DALE ALLEN HALL
    • Date: May 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
  • Don’t Forget Your Reinsurer Revisited –15 Years Later
    interaction and discussion going on between the direct company actuaries and the reinsurance actuaries ... reinsurance volume assumed (by reinsurers) and ceded (by direct companies) requires additional lead time to develop ...

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    • Authors: Philip Velazquez
    • Date: Nov 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Reinsurance
  • Small Talk, June 2020
    into a PE fund from “day one” is known as the “primary” market. Over the past decade, however, we have ... secondary market still remains much smaller than the primary market, with less than 2 percent of PE assets ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Principle-Based Reserves PBR – More Trends, But Not Resolution
    (VM21) and health insur- ance, including long-term care (VM25). If SVL was adopted among the states, completely ... to require separate cash flow projections for direct and reinsurance ceded portions. 7. Numerous ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill
    • Date: Dec 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Updated Regulatory Gamut—From OFC to PBR and In Between
    provision that, on heavily coinsured term insurance, direct versus ceded modal pre- mium differences would ... annuities and health insurance, including long-term care. Summary As always, there are a host of regulatory ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill
    • Date: Nov 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Public Policy
  • The Year 2000 Clock Is Ticking
    This hotly argued rec- ommendation will have a direct impact on the bottom line and give rise to addi- ... complacency. Corporate law typically imposes standards of care on the company’s managers and directors which could ...

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    • Authors: Mike Lombardi
    • Date: May 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Small Talk Newsletter, November 2002, Issue No. 19
    a particular disease, the actuary needs to take care to transform these into incidence rates using information ... existing company data from other types of coverage, care must be taken to consider the effect that the lump ...

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    • Authors: Timothy J Harris, Mark C Rowley, James Thompson, Jeffrey Morris, Tom Kalmbach, R. Dale Hall
    • Date: Nov 2002
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • GRET 2006: What It Is and How It’s Going
    has four categories of companies: branch office, direct marketing, home service and other. Companies were ... caused by using only one year’s worth of data. The direct marketing category in particular exhibited large ...

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    • Authors: James Thompson
    • Date: Nov 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
  • Using Relevant Experience Data to Increase Credibility and Reduce Margins
    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: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance