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  • Hitting the Target: Improvements to U.S. GAAP for Long-Duration Insurance Contracts
    Hitting the Target: Improvements to U.S. GAAP for Long-Duration Insurance Contracts After a summary ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Revisiting FAS 97’s Management Potential
    Revisiting FAS 97’s Management Potential This article discusses the adoption of the AICPA Statement ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Public Policy
  • Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Constraints
    accounting for traditional contract liabilities under GAAP’s Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration ... cash outflow of a direct benefit to the extent it’s reinsured. When the liability for future policy benefits ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Unique Concerns
    Malerich The Financial Reporter, April 2021 Author’s note: This is the fourth in a series of articles looking ... looking at accounting for ceded reinsurance under GAAP’s Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Apr 2021
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Term Insurance Earnings
    decision-making pro-cess for targeted improvements to U.S. GAAP for long-duration insurance contracts, the ... expected under original best estimate assumptions. Table 1 Expected Income Statement Current Improved Difference ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Term life
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Unlocking Persistency
    that noise. Both articles examined effects when mortality devi- ates from the original valuation assumption ... assumption. In contrast to earlier illustrations of mortality, persistent lapse variances and the eventual ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0
    Figure 2 adds the extrapolated adjustment to Figure 1’s term insurance illustration. Rather than drifting ... Statements Prepared in Accordance with U.S. GAAP ASOP 10’s section 3.3 (Best Estimate Assumptions) says ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Targeted Improvements—Illustrated Universal Life Earnings
    combination of aggregate COI rates and a select mortality assumption causes in- surance margins to decrease ... benefit (GMxB) guaran- tees embedded in variable annuity contracts clearly fall under this definition.

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • GAAP Targeted Opportunity
    old problem in a new way. TRUE UP FOR ACTUAL MORTALITY EXPERIENCE Figure 1 shows quarterly income for ... experience is performed only once each year and the mortality assumption is changed at the beginning of year ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Introducing a New Practice Note on Purchase GAAP Accounting
    also dealing with business combinations subject to U.S. statutory accounting and tax laws, and that such ... practice note includes significant refer- ence to U.S. statutory and tax accounting, beginning with the ...

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    • Authors: Steven Malerich
    • Date: Jun 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]