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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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Financial Reporting Topics - Current Interest
made to the authorities for some changes. The primary studies have been joint efforts of the CIA and ... extraordinary item, a prior period adjustment or a direct surplus transaction. The Task Force envisages the ...- Authors: David N Becker, Richard Kischuk, John O Montgomery, William J Schreiner, Horace W McCubbin
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: 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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Ask the Experts
reinsurer doesn’t have the authority to cancel, but the direct writer does. Could you have different reserves ... What you’re saying is that it’s cancellable by the direct writer, but not unilaterally by the reinsurer ...- Authors: David N Becker, Application Administrator, J Campbell, Martin Claire, Mark F Davis, John Di Joseph, George Harrison, Kerry Krantz, Daniel J McCarthy, James L McCallen, Benjamin George Peters, Michael Sparrow
- Date: Sep 2000
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Global Perspectives; Public Policy; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
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Current Development In GAAP
From my point of view, I look at three major or primary implications of these types of products on GAAP ... that the selection of such assumptions are the primary responsibility of the actuary and that the Academy ...- Authors: David N Becker, Charles Carroll, Kriss Cloninger, Michael Eckman, Burton Jay, Theodore J Newton, H Ray Eanes
- Date: May 1982
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Reinsurance>Financial reporting for reinsurance
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Financial Economics: The Option You Can't Refuse
achieve equity returns without having to take a direct equity position. Options on such futures allow ... transaction? From GM’s point of view, it doesn’t really care whether you sold that bond to me or someone else ...- Authors: David N Becker
- Date: Jun 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
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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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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