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  • 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
  • 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
  • Financial Reporter Issue 91
    Considering that last sentence, one can see the primary strength of the VaR metric: It is easy to interpret ... enacted by states representing 75 percent of the direct premium written in 2008 and same or similar legislation ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2012
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • 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
  • 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
  • Potential Modeling Challenges in a Negative Interest Rate Environment
    market rate is negative). For a two-sided function, care must be taken to ensure that the additive adjustment ... appropriately under negative interest rates. However, care should be taken to ensure that there are no floors ...

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    • Authors: Zohair Motiwalla
    • Date: Mar 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • 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
  • 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 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