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  • Session 45: Dynamic Hedging - Fair Valuation for FAS 133
    are FAS 133 because they are net-settled. GMIB direct liabilities are not, because they're not net-settled ... main reasons why that is so. The first and primary reason, which Martin already alluded to, is that ...

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    • Authors: Ejaz Haroon, Martin Hall
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • What Does This Market-Value Accounting Really Mean?
    critiques. The available-for-salecategory is the primary problem for insurance companies. The trading category ... valuation allowance is what you would call your primary traditional DAC versus a DAC that counted unrealized ...

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    • Authors: James Hohmann, Douglas C Kolsrud, Edward Robbins
    • Date: May 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Fair-Value Reporting - Is There a Fairer Way?
    equation is the balance sheet equation and our primary statutory equation. The second equation is the ... pricing method has also been referred to as the "direct" method because the liability cash flows are discounted ...

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    • Authors: Luke Girard, S Michael McLaughlin, James A Robinson, Deborah Whitmore
    • Date: Jun 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • International Valuation - Coming Soon to a Country Near You
    to execute various business alternatives was a primary objective. In other words, regulators should be ... essentially points out that the system itself doesn't take care of all the things that are developed when we keep ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Dicke, Sam Gutterman, Edward Robbins, Walter Rugland, Shirley Hwei-Chung Shao
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Global Perspectives
  • 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
  • Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities
    policy, he foregoes other rights, so it is not a direct parallel to a depositor simply making withdrawals ... duration mismatch, if any. The IDR method is a direct method. The Academy characterized this method ...

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    • Authors: Frederic W Corwin, J Duran, S Michael McLaughlin, Robert C Wilkins
    • Date: Jun 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities
    by FAS 115. The other two approaches are more direct approaches to determining what the fair value of ... strengths and weaknesses of each method. I guess the primary strength of all these methods is that they more ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Irwin T Vanderhoof, Zain Mohey-Deen, Robert C Wilkins
    • Date: May 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Implications of International/Fair Value Accounting Changes
    been called the indirect method, as opposed to the direct method of simply looking at the liabilities by ... or the actuarial appraisal method, even if the direct method ends up being chosen, Implications Of ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Doll, Albert Zlogar, Emma McWilliam
    • Date: Oct 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Fair Value Accounting
    you should be aware of is that there really is no direct effect on FAS 115 related to derivative hedge accounting ... different possible fair value accounting methods. The primary focus of that paper, though, is more on “how” than ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, Luke Girard, George Silos, Douglas W Johnson
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Market-Value Accounting
    liabilities. In simplified terms, there are two primary ways to determine the fair value; you can set the ... semiarbitrary class of available-for-sale assets. Would you care to comment on that? MR. HOHMANN: I think the observation ...

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    • Authors: James Hohmann, Douglas C Kolsrud, James D Wallace, Matthew Clayton Modisett
    • Date: Apr 1994
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting