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Accumulated Annuity Design
Accumulated Annuity Design A paper demonstrating how to obviate the need for market timing strategies ... strategies in variable annuity products by judicious use of product design. The paper presents the premise behind ...- Authors: Lloyd A Foster
- Date: May 2024
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Product Matters!
- Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities
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Managing Investment Risks in Contractual Designs
Life and annuity markets around the world have seen increasingly complex investment-combined products ... to financial risks in addition to traditional mortality and longevity risks. The risk assessment and modeling ...- Authors: Runhuan Feng, Longhao Jin
- Date: Nov 2021
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
- Topics: Annuities; Annuities>Capital - Annuities; Annuities>Guaranteed living benefits; Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Annuities>Product development - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Annuities>Deferred annuities; Annuities>Living / Death benefit riders
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Confusing the Matrix: Actuarial Adaptations to a Well-Known Construct
underwriting space. An in depth discussion of estimating mortality impact using underwriting audits follows. Three ... Three key assumptions that effect mortality impact are discussed. Readers will leave with an understanding ...- Authors: Ryan Holt
- Date: Aug 2022
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Product Matters!
- Topics: Life Insurance>Accelerated underwriting
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Beware the Flaw of Averages: Hidden Longevity Diversity can Materially Change Decision-making
be applied to the use of so-called “standard” mortality tables. Sharpening up these blunt estimates by ... annuities being no exception. Several insurers in the U.S. pension risk transfer market have started using ...- Date: Dec 2020
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
- Topics: Demography; Pensions & Retirement
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Managing Investment Risks in Contractual Designs
Investment Risks in Contractual Designs Life and annuity markets around the world have seen increasingly ... to financial risks in addition to traditional mortality and longevity risks. The risk assessment and modeling ...- Authors: Runhuan Feng
- Date: Sep 2021
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Annuities>Capital - Annuities; Annuities>Guaranteed living benefits; Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Annuities>Product development - Annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Annuities>Deferred annuities; Annuities>Living / Death benefit riders
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Financial Reporting Research Update
the results, check out the report from last year’s survey at: https://www.soa.org/resources/researc ... expected to be released in November. “2023 Update of Mortality by Socioeconomic Category.” In the past few years ...- Authors: Ronora Stryker
- Date: Jan 2024
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
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The Withdrawal Liability Interest Rate Puzzle
significant events occurred that affected actuaries: Rubik’s Cube was officially introduced and continues to be ... current world record for a 3x3 Rubik’s Cube (as of the article’s writing, it is 3.47 seconds[1]). But ...- Authors: Hal Tepfer
- Date: Mar 2022
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Retirement Section News
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement; Pensions & Retirement>Multi-employer plans
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Potential Modeling Challenges in a Negative Interest Rate Environment
often used to discount cash flows, as well as in annuity factor and dynamic lapse calculations. The models ... is commonly an additive adjustment to the company’s base lapse. The dynamic lapse function itself is commonly ...- 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
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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 ...- 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
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Actuarial Problem Variety for Syllabi, Pedagogy, and Remediation
problems of various software vendors. The author's students routinely score high on the SOA FM exam; ... problems, for example, calculating the price of an annuity that is first increasing and then level; “Monkey-wrench” ...- Authors: Russell Hendel
- Date: Nov 2021
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Competencies