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  • The Adjustable Life Decisions
    product designs for life-cycle business involve more direct separation of the investment and insurance functions ... the impression that adjustments are similar to direct writing from the home office and that this is the ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, Stephen H Frankel, Solomon Goldfinger, J Ross Hanson
    • Date: Apr 1979
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Regulatory Expectations from Asset Adequacy Analysis
    adequacy standards. The insurance department's primary regulatory focus is the industry domiciled in ... reliance. If I 'm an actuary for a company and I direct a subordinate to do a certain set of calculations ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, John F Gies, Larry M Gorski, Mark D Peavy
    • Date: Jan 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Public Policy
  • Update on Fair-Value Reporting
    uses relative valuation tools. I called this the "direct paradigm" in a paper titled "Two Paradigms for ... zero, and you are insolvent. If you're using a direct paradigm, it depends on the driving force. You ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, W Paul McCrossan, Robert Reitano, Wayne S Upton
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Internal Financials
    The advantage of this method was its obvious direct tie to the pricing process. Additional advantages ... for several reasons. First, the method lacked a direct tie to statutory reporting. Second, there was no ...

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    • Authors: Gary Corbett, J Duran, Douglas J Jangraw, Jan Pollnow, Robert Shapiro
    • Date: Jan 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Management of Expenses in a Life Insurance Company
    criterion. Another category would be direct maintenance expenses. Direct maintenance expenses means those ... there's room for interpretation as to just what is a direct maintenance expense and what is not. The reason ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, Patricia Guinn, Frederick W Jackson, Antonio Gonzalez, William H Cash
    • Date: Apr 1991
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Valuation Actuary – 1992 Developments
    composed of six prominent actuaries, thus became the primary driving force behind the valuation actuary concept ... industry response, primarily through the ACLI, was direct opposition to this point. The position of industry ...

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    • Authors: John S Bath, Application Administrator, J Duran, Marc Pitoniak
    • Date: Jan 1992
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Reinsurance
  • Fair-Value Reporting
    to be used in projecting liability cash flows, direct methods versus indirect methods, and allowance ... liability fair value. That’s the indirect method. The direct method is really a family of methods where the ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, Michael J Hambro, Jeffrey Cropsey
    • Date: Nov 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Current Topics Affecting Financial Reporting Actuaries
    involve how employers account for pensions or health care costs certainly have relevance in the financial ... MR. ROBERTSON: I agree with you entirely. The primary responsibility that you have, or I have, or any ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, Donna Claire, Douglas C Kolsrud, Richard S Robertson
    • Date: May 1995
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • State Variations from Standard Law
    in the opinion while others probably could not care less, especially for opinions from nondomiciliary ... state's variations from the NAIC models. The primary users for this system will be state regulators ...

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    • Authors: Thomas Campbell, J Duran, Wm Harold Phillips, Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao, James Van Elsen
    • Date: Jan 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy
  • Treatment of Closed Blocks in Demutualizations
    participating policies, such as individual medical care and disability income, because of the very limited ... Until we dispose of the loan, we would reflect any direct property expenses, such as real estate taxes or ...

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    • Authors: J Duran, Godfrey Perrott, Barry L Shemin, Michael Slipowitz, Janine Cleland
    • Date: Oct 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting