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  • VM-20 Company Experience Mortality Rates: APF 2020-08
    VM-20 Company Experience Mortality Rates: APF 2020-08 In November 2020 the Life Actuarial (A) Task Force ... Valuation Manual to determine company experience mortality rates. This article describes the three methods ...

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    • Authors: Timothy Cardinal
    • Date: Apr 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    researcher to perform the study. “2022 Update of Mortality by Socioeconomic Category.” In the past few years ... several studies that examine U.S. population socioeconomic inequalities in mortality. This project updates past ...

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    • Authors: Ronora Stryker, Eric Chen
    • Date: Oct 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Income Volatility Under LDTI
    influence income volatility, and 3) Show how a company's management reporting can be adapted to help explain ... influence income volatility. We show how a company’s management reporting can be adapted to help explain ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner
    • Date: Feb 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • What’s a Moderately Adverse Interest Rate Scenario, Anyway?
    What’s a Moderately Adverse Interest Rate Scenario, Anyway? Summary of the SOA's research report ...

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    • Authors: Mark Alberts
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation
  • Negative IMR Considerations in a Higher Interest Rate Environment
    accident, and health insurers domiciled in the U.S. are required to include an IMR in their Statutory ... disconnect between the asset book yield and the liability’s fixed valuation interest rate. By amortizing RCG/(L) ...

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    • Authors: Yuan Tao, Charles K Chacosky, Rey Malile
    • Date: Jun 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    PROCESS “Mortality Improvement Trend Analysis.” This research exam- ines the key drivers of mortality improvement ... Forecasting Cause-of-Death Mortality.” This study will develop mortality projection models and produce ...

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    • Authors: David C Armstrong, Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    deferred annuities and term life insurance under U.S. SAP, U.S. GAAP, IFRS, CALM and market-consistent balance ... updates for principle-based U.S. statutory reserves, targeted changes to U.S. GAAP, and the new IFRS for ...

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    • Authors: David C Armstrong
    • Date: Jun 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Gaining Trust in Predictive Models—an Actuarial Perspective
    order to understand this model selection process, it’s essential for the validator to understand how various ... duration is more significant than moneyness in the MIC table below. (see Figure 5) Figure 5 Illustrative Example ...

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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
  • Financial Reporting Research Update
    Forecasting Cause-of Death Mortality”—this study will develop mortality projection models and produce ... produce cause- of-death mortality forecasts. Work is in the early project stage. “A Machine Learning Approach ...

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    • Authors: Ronora Stryker, David C Armstrong
    • Date: Apr 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
  • Group Capital Management in an Increasingly Global Insurance Market
    supervision and group capital and its importance in today's increasingly global insurance market. Additionally ... and the Hong Kong Insurance Authority (HKIA). The table below summarizes the number of internationally active ...

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    • Authors: Paul Song, Seong Weon Park, Dean Kerr
    • Date: Nov 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Global Perspectives; Global Perspectives>Global markets; Global Perspectives>Multinational companies