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Ask The Experts
asked was, What do regulators want? And I think a direct answer to that is, I don't know. 314 ASK ... reinsured business? A reinsurer often has hundreds of direct riders sending reserve information to it. Also ...- Authors: David N Becker, Craig R Raymond, Francis Sabatini, Stephen N Steinig
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Public Policy
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Market Value Measures: Duration Analysis and Economic Surplus
economic surplus as well, which gives you the more direct picture of what's happening and is virtually related ... opportunity in the yield curve, the market would take care of it and the yield curve would move until there ...- Authors: David N Becker, Cindy L Forbes, Frederick W Jackson, Douglas A George
- Date: Sep 1997
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Financial Reporting & Accounting
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Cash-Flow Testing for Product Actuaries
assumption of mortality and morbidity risk is the primary source of prof,. But many other insurance products ... deferred annuities, have interest rate spread as the primary, or at least a very critical, source of profitability ...- Authors: David N Becker, Application Administrator, Donna Claire, Martin Klein, Anne Katcher
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments; Public Policy
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A Policy-Year Model for GAAP Valuation of Coinsurance and Modified Coinsurance
of twenty years and the premium-paying period, care must be taken not to overstate the GAAP profit ... reinsurer, and the costs are the expenses of the direct writer. Since the business is coinsured, insurance ...- Authors: David N Becker, Michael Eckman
- Date: Jan 1981
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Reinsurance>Coinsurance
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Interest Rate Model Risk
because I know there are many companies where the primary goal is to meet the literal requirements of the ... The danger in comparing two models is that, if care isn't taken to parameterize them reasonably consistently ...- Authors: David N Becker, Michael E Mateja, Douglas A George, Peter Fitton
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Value of the Firm:The Option Adjusted Value of Distributable Earnings
for com- pleteness of the discussion, with the primary focus being on the last two proposals. The first ... ordinary life; • disability income and long term care. The features that create risk include: • cash ...- Authors: David N Becker
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
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Practitioners' Forum
my associates and I at Lincoln see that the primary purpose of our work is to provide the best information ... your model is all important. MR. BECKER: The primary purpose of our models is to identify and quantify ...- Authors: David N Becker, Charles D Friedstat, Michael E Mateja, Stephen A J Sedlak
- Date: Sep 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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A Framework for Managing Surplus
A Framework for Managing Surplus This session at the 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium presents a ... convexities of the various asset classes. But care must be taken so that the duration and convexity ...- Authors: David N Becker
- Date: Sep 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Capital management - Finance & Investments
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Statistical Tests of the Lognormal Distribution as a Basis for Interest Rate Changes
skewness and kurtosis tests are supplemented by direct tests of skewness and kurtosis that are valid at ... An "S" or "K'" also represents a failure of the direct tests of the skewness or kurtosis. The skewness ...- Authors: David N Becker, Douglas Doll, Thomas Herzog, Daniel W Tucker
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation
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Ask The Experts
Ask The Experts 1998 Valuation Actuary Symposium. In this open forum questions were fielded by ... alluded to, if you make the argument that your primary assumption for projecting EGPs is the long-term ...- Authors: David N Becker, Donna Claire, Craig R Raymond, Stephen A J Sedlak
- Date: Jan 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy