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  • The Financial Reporter, July 2020, Issue 122
    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: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jul 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Two New Bases, One Big Transformation— Thoughts on Concurrent Implementation of two Accounting Bases
    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: Aisling Metcalfe, Alexander Zaidlin, Gavin Stewart
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • 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]
  • June 2016 Financial Reporter
    most recently calculated k factor. There are two primary reasons why the amortization schedule would have ... than 5 percent. Bühlmann method can use the direct approximation for- mula for Z provided in VM-20 ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2016
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • The Financial Reporter, December 2019, Issue 119
    members through a variety of media: • We are the primary sponsoring section of the Valuation Actuary Symposium ... over from current standards— assessments exclude a direct charge (front-end loads) and include a GAAP accrual ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial Reporter - March 2013
    independence when the model owner also acts as a primary validator. Segregation of duties is of particular ... dictions that represent at least 75 percent of direct premiums to adopt the new Standard Valuation Law ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2013
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Purchase GAAP for Equity-Indexed Annuities
    derivatives at issue. This guidance is very helpful for direct writers because the basis of the hybrid contract ... being comparable with the practice used by the direct writer, reinsurance premium can be used as the ...

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    • Authors: Vincent Y Y Tsang
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • The Financial Reporter, March 2018, Issue 112
    rate and a higher DR. The DR calculated using the direct iteration method (DIM), in addition to the SR ... tablescalcs-tools/research-scenario/. 3 VM-20 Section 4.B (direct iteration method) describes an approach in which ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: 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]
  • ULSG AG38 Valuation Research Report
    the Go By James Miles 32 “Fragile, Handle with Care” By Ross Zilber 34 Assumption Development and ... additional reserves were required when applying the primary reserve methodology of Section 8D to their in-force ...

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    • Authors: Craig Roberts
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • The Relationship of Mortality Projections and the Underlying Mortality Tables Used
    and ultimate mortality table should be especially care- ful in setting their mortality assumptions. If ... of fluid- tested underwriting). Many companies (direct writers, as well as reinsurers) have reduced profit ...

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    • Authors: Larry Warren
    • Date: Sep 2002
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - 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: Marianne C Purushotham, Mark Birdsall
    • 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: The Financial Reporter
    • 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