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  • Chairperson’s Corner
    Chairperson’s Corner Pandemic impact on continuing education. Financial Reporting Section and Community ... LDTI and updating the IFRI textbook for last year’s amendments. They are coming. I know you will all want ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Van Dam
    • Date: Sep 2021
    • Competency: Communication; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • The Financial Reporter
    2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter financial reporting;corporate ... standards=IAS;international financial reporting standards=IFRS;annuity valuation;defined benefit plans;pension accounting;pension ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Frank Grossman, William Sayre, Francis de Regnaucourt, Karen Rudolph, Henry Siegel, R Thomas Herget, R Inglis
    • Date: Sep 2014
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Pensions & Retirement
  • Projections of Investment-Related Discretionary Elements
    discretionary elements of various life insurance and annuity products. It outlines potential implementation ... initially, but over the projection reflect management’s evolving expectation, moving ultimately to risk neutral ...

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    • Authors: Kevin H Strobel , Allison Kathleen Clark
    • Date: Sep 2019
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Frequently Asked Questions—Indirect Par Contracts Under IFRS 17
    are a large number of Indirect Par products in the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Asia. We will focus on ... variable universal life and variable annuities in the U.S., as well as segregated fund products in Canada, ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner, Kyle Stolarz
    • Date: Jun 2021
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Report on the International Actuarial Association
    Report on the International Actuarial Association Article discussing the International Actuarial ... discussing the International Actuarial Association's meeting in November 2008. Discount rates=Interest ...

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    • Authors: James Milholland
    • Date: Apr 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • Two New Bases, One Big Transformation— Thoughts on Concurrent Implementation of two Accounting Bases
    report in certain jurisdictions under IFRS, or U.S. subsidiaries of multi-national insurers located ... and detailed enough to meet the requirements for U.S. and international reporting bases. This will avoid ...

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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]
  • IFRS 17 Corner
    IFRS 17 or LDTI. It’s a bit of a fool’s game to actually answer the question, but it’s nonetheless interesting ... purer approach. LDTI uses the single A curve (as it’s widely interpreted), prioritizing a high degree of ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner
    • Date: Apr 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Life Insurance
  • Bridging the GAAP: IFRS 17 and LDTI Differences Explored
    contract should not be grouped with a deferred annuity contract for the purposes of measurement. Both ... for projected cash surrender value on a deferred annuity, for which the projected cash surrender value is ...

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    • Authors: Gregory Mackenzie, Tina Guo
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • 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]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • IFRS 17 Corner
    income. In the comparatives between IFRS 4 and 17, it’s generally easier to understand where the IFRS 17 income ... estimate liability (BEL). It’s very difficult to boil down into a metric that’s comparable across companies ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Rosner
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • IFRS 17: Implications for Onerous Contracts
    onerous at initial recognition (if any) from the protable group of contracts. The IASB determined that the ... cannot be onerous [IFRS 17.68]. In- stead of protable or onerous contracts, IFRS 17 views them as the ...

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    • Authors: Hung Pan Cheung
    • Date: Dec 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]