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  • 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
  • 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
  • Financial Reporting Section News March 2012
    service contracts that provide service as their primary purpose, and that meet all of the following criteria: ... benefits, including participating features, and direct expenses, including acquisition costs. Inflows ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • 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 Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • 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
  • Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance under LDTI—A Fresh Look
    (LDTI) will complicate the relationship between direct and ceded reinsurance accounting. In the September ... described above, direct and ceded reserves need to accrue on the same base—direct premiums. Cost of ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Nov 2020
    • Competency: Communication; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • Gaining Trust in Predictive Models—an Actuarial Perspective
    model, however, the choice of model is often the primary focus. Given the wide variety of possible options ... and false negatives is better. Data One of the primary factors in model selection will be the data. The ...

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    • Authors: David Alison FSA (David)
    • Date: Sep 2021
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics>Modeling techniques; Predictive Analytics>Quality control & model governance; Technology & Applications>Artificial intelligence & machine learning
  • Insights into Life PBR Emerging Practices
    principle-based reserve (PBR) practices. Forty direct writers and reinsurers with 80 percent market ... Report, 2nd Quarter, 2018 shows IUL sales with a primary pric- ing objective of death benefit, guaranteed ...

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    • Authors: Kevin Carr, Andrew Radel, Chris Whitney
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Financial Reporter
    than to hold assets that are primarily for the direct or indirect benefit or use of the insurer or its ... an answer. The answer is Section members. If we care, we have to get involved. Learn about the issues ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Stanton L Cole, Larry M Gorski, Mike Lombardi, Thomas Nace, Kevin E Palmer, Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao, Barry L Shemin, S Michael McLaughlin
    • Date: Sep 2000
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • frn-2012-iss88
    service contracts that provide service as their primary purpose, and that meet all of the following criteria: ... benefits, including participating features, and direct expenses, including acquisition costs. Inflows ...
    • Date: Feb 2012
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Financial Reporter
    jurisdictions rep- resenting close to 72 percent of “2008 Direct Premiums” have enacted versions of the new Standard ... companies were represented in the call, including direct insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. During ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter