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Embedded Volatility: Insight from Market Risk Benefit Roll-Forward
Embedded Volatility: Insight from Market Risk Benefit Roll-Forward In this article, we collected ... they fit perfectly, the market-traded static and dynamic hedge programs introduce cost by removing inherent ...- Authors: Su Su, Tina Guo, Yifeng Mu, Robert E Winawer
- Date: Nov 2023
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance Under LDTI—Existing Business
different discount rates recognized earlier, the “dynamic retrospective” and “attributed retrospective” remeasurement ... but there are some practical differences. The dynamic retrospective method uses the familiar modified ...- Authors: Steven Malerich
- Date: Jul 2021
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Building a Narrative Around LDTI Discount Rate Updates
many insurers. Reported AOCI will capture this dynamic, and impacts to surplus will be felt. This article ... interest rate environment is the rolling up the curve dynamic discussed earlier. Even though the yield curve ...- Date: Apr 2021
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Economics>Financial markets; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance under LDTI—Introduction
Accounting for Ceded Reinsurance under LDTI—Introduction This is the first in a series of articles ... applying assumption updates. A FRESH LOOK The dynamic assumption update requirements of LDTI will affect ...- Authors: Steven Malerich
- Date: Sep 2020
- Competency: Communication; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
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Session 114: Integrated FP&A Projections and “What-if” Analysis
CFO and finance leaders: • playing a much more dynamic and facilitative role; • moving from static and ... Rules Engine (FAH) Reporting & Analytics (OBIEE) Dynamic Data Visualization (Tableau, Oracle) Advanced Analytics ...- Authors: Alexandre Lemieux, Youyou Tao, Jordan Edwards
- Date: Feb 2020
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk appetite; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Session 15 - Update on AG 43 and C3 Phase 2 Revisions
C3P2 CTEA 90 Best Efforts (reflects static and dynamic hedging) C3P2 CTEA 90 Adjusted (reflects static ... CTEA 70 Best Efforts (reflects static and dynamic hedging) AG43 CTEA 70 Adjusted (reflects static ...- Authors: Zohair Motiwalla, Lance Berthiaume, Yuan Tao, Nicholas Carbo, Stephen Matthew Tizzoni FSA,MAAA
- Date: Sep 2019
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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Session 50 - Targeting Risk and Improving Controls Under US GAAP Targeted Improvements
cohort testing • Stress / sensitivity testing • Dynamic validation • Leakproof testing • Assess fit for ... customized rollforwards Detective • Static and dynamic validations Mistakes flow through financials undetected ...- Authors: Kevin Desmond, Paul Chao-Liang Chen, Kathleen Kervick
- Date: Aug 2019
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Session 66: Statutory and GAAP Valuation and Regulatory Update
Session 66: Statutory and GAAP Valuation and Regulatory Update The presenters at this session ... to include tables showing numerical static and dynamic validations results and commentary on these results ...- Authors: Jason Kehrberg, Eve-Simone Pastor, Robert E Winawer
- Date: May 2019
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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GAAP Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts: Ramifications for the Modeling Actuary
GAAP Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts: Ramifications for the Modeling Actuary This article ... which includes loading mortality rates, coding dynamic lapse formulas and implementing any other assump- ...- Authors: Jean-Philippe Larochelle, Ryan Laine, Dave Czernicki
- Date: Apr 2019
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Modeling Platform
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Two New Bases, One Big Transformation— Thoughts on Concurrent Implementation of two Accounting Bases
Two New Bases, One Big Transformation— Thoughts on Concurrent Implementation of two Accounting ... intelligence platforms can be useful tools to create dynamic reporting and disclosure dashboards. Actuarial ...- Authors: Aisling Metcalfe, Alexander Zaidlin, Gavin Stewart
- Date: Dec 2018
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
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The Financial Reporter, June 2018, Issue 113
estimating claims for variable products with dynamic policyholder behavior that is linked to capital ... opens the door for the possibility of using a dynamic lapse assumption as com- monly seen in variable ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jun 2018
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
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ULSG SOP 03-1 Reserving Practices – Survey Highlights
opens the door for the possibility of using a dynamic lapse assumption as com- monly seen in variable ... the respondents indicated that they do not use a dynamic assumption and simply lower the lapse rate when ...- Authors: Emily Cassidy
- Date: Jun 2018
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
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IFRS 17 – a paradigm shift for U.S. actuaries
IFRS 17 – a paradigm shift for U.S. actuaries This article will focus on introducing where IFRS17 ... estimating claims for variable products with dynamic policyholder behavior that is linked to capital ...- Authors: Darryl Wagner, Hui Shan
- Date: Jun 2018
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
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Accounting Change for Variable Annuities With Implications on Hedging
the hedging program, but it appears that most dynamic hedge programs covering variable annuity guarantees ... flows are also reflected, including projected dynamic hedge behavior, modified by measures of hedge ...- Authors: Bruce Rosner, Robert Frasca
- Date: Dec 2017
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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The Financial Reporter, September 2017, Issue 110
qualifying for tax-related advantages; and 4. Dynamic policyholder behavior functions reflecting scenario-dependent ... identify the significant predictors of experience and dynamic policyholder behavior functions that will serve ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Sep 2017
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
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Unlocking of Traditional Contract Assumptions
Unlocking of Traditional Contract Assumptions Formulas for changes in GAAP liabilities and liability ... Henry is Mostly Rightabout IFRS for Insurance Dynamic Assumption-Setting for Variable andNon- Variable ...- Authors: Steven Malerich
- Date: Mar 2017
- Competency: 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
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Exposure Draft of Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Long- Duration Insurance Contracts
Exposure Draft of Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Long- Duration Insurance Contracts A ... Henry is Mostly Rightabout IFRS for Insurance Dynamic Assumption-Setting for Variable andNon- Variable ...- Date: Mar 2017
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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December 2015 issue of The Financial Reporter
December 2015 issue of The Financial Reporter December 2015 issue of The Financial Reporter ... ment without at least partial backtrack to a more dynamic stan- Front-End Loads Many people interpret existing ...- Authors: Michael Fruchter
- Date: Dec 2015
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
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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 ... ment without at least partial backtrack to a more dynamic stan- Front-End Loads Many people interpret existing ...- 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]
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Implementation Perspectives On Solvency II Internal Model Standards
valida- tion is not an easy task when there are dynamic deci- sions and linkages in the stochastic model ... the second- ary impact and the implications of dynamic assump- tions and sensitivities. For example, considering ...- Date: Mar 2013
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
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Synopsis of the Reinsurance Section’s Sponsored Research Paper on Extreme Event Risk
recognitions forming judgments within specific dynamic contexts, machine intelligence answers will likely ... differently during emerging abnormal times. This dynamic array of method failures can be used to 1) recognize ...- Authors: H Shumrak
- Date: Mar 2013
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
- Publication Name: Reinsurance News
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Pricing - Reinsurance
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Report on Premium Persistency Assumptions of Flexible Premium Universal Life Products
Report on Premium Persistency Assumptions of Flexible Premium Universal Life Products This article ... testing of premium persistency assumptions and dynamic premium persistency assumptions were rarely used ...- Authors: Carl Friedrich, Donna Christine Megregian, Susan Saip
- Date: Oct 2012
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
- Publication Name: Product Matters!
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
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Society of Actuaries’ Research Project on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts under Possible Future International Accounting Standards
Society of Actuaries’ Research Project on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts under Possible ... deflators. Both sets of projections also include dynamic lapse and withdrawal assumptions for both GAAP ...- Authors: Sam Gutterman, Randy Tillis, Hung Hsun Jennifer Liang, Tracey Polsgrove
- Date: Aug 2008
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Actuarial Practice Forum
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
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Financial Statement Disclosure: The Needs and Practices Related to Financial Risk
Financial Statement Disclosure: The Needs and Practices Related to Financial Risk This paper ... concerning policyholder behavior. Because of the dynamic and complex nature of these cash flows, stochastic ...- Authors: Robert Frasca, Gordon Andrew Tucker
- Date: Jan 2007
- Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Practice Forum
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
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US GAAP for Life Insurers
US GAAP for Life Insurers US ... 6.5% interest Table 3-22 Table 3-22 Dynamic Worksheet for SFAS 60 Product (1) (2) (3) ... Actual Policy Mean In Force Insurance Dynamic Year DAC End of Year In Force DAC ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Jan 2006
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Where Did All the Mergers and Acquisitions Go?
today's market and the need to have sophisticated, dynamic hedging programs, whether it's term insurance or ... Life situation was a more extreme example of a dynamic that allowed for a purchase price that gave the ...- Authors: John Nigh, Laird D Zacheis, Stephen Fromm
- Date: May 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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U.S. GAAP Update
generator does have an impact on reserves. Dynamic policyholder behavior is often ignored. I didn't ... manual controls. Tomorrow they've got to be more dynamic controls. Instead of being owned by what we call ...- Authors: Richard Farrell, Steven H Mahan, David White
- Date: May 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values>Practice expertise
- 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]
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GAAP Issues
scenarios are enough? How do you make assumptions dynamic? How do you deal with asset/liability interaction ... take some comfort in the fact that there is some dynamic unlocking going on so that, over time, if experience ...- Authors: Craig Reynolds, David C Scheinerman, Darryl Wagner
- Date: Sep 2004
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Hedging Variable Annuity Guarantees: A Practical Discussion
issues you have to deal with. Are you going to do dynamic hedging or static hedging? The breadth of hedge ... probably not the right answer. Nor is a completely dynamic hedging strategy that is only hedging the immediate ...- Authors: Zafar Rashid, Francis Sabatini, Application Administrator, Daniel D Heyer, Mark Evans
- Date: Jun 2004
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Annuities>Guaranteed living benefits; Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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U.S. GAAP Update
think it is prudent for the actuary to consider a dynamic formula, because if you have a benefit that can ... it's probably going to require you to develop a dynamic formula that changes your election rate depending ...- Authors: Carol F Salomone, Darin Zimmerman, Patricia Matson
- Date: Jun 2004
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Reinsurance>Coinsurance
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Current Topics in GAAP
a FAS 60 net level premium reserve with FAS 97 dynamic unlocking overlaid that says that any changes ... do with regular reevaluation, and what FAS 97 dynamic unlocking means in this environment. For example ...- Authors: Charles Carroll, John Morris, David Rogers, Phillip Shane Elenbaas, David M Brown
- Date: Oct 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Practical Issues Of Implementing The Draft SOP On Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts
reevaluated with actual experience. It’s a type of dynamic unlocking. These changes in the additional liability ... before, this is kind of a FAS 60 approach with dynamic unlocking, and it is kind of a new concept. I ...- Authors: Robert Frasca, Carol F Salomone
- Date: Sep 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Draft SOP on Nontraditional Products: GMDB Reserve Requirements and Implications
Draft SOP on Nontraditional Products: GMDB Reserve Requirements and Implications Presented at May ... consider. But I believe that we did develop a dynamic lapse assumption, so our lapses were somewhat ...- Authors: Louis Lombardi, David C Scheinerman, Karen DeToro
- Date: May 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Session 45: Dynamic Hedging - Fair Valuation for FAS 133
Session 45: Dynamic Hedging - Fair Valuation for FAS 133 Presented at May 2002 Spring Meeting.- 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]
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Worldwide Accounting Developments
sets the standards for dynamic capital adequacy testing formerly called dynamic solvency testing. A couple ... through is different. Then there's the annual dynamic capital adequacy testing, which is required of ...- Authors: J Engels, Brett McWilliam, S Michael McLaughlin
- Date: May 2002
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Accounting Standards Board [IASB]
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Practitioner's Forum
Life Insurance (ACLI) actuarial committees on dynamic valuation interest rate proposal. The speakers ... what everyone is going to do. That’s like the dynamic valuation interest rates in the standard valuation ...- Authors: James Bridgeman, Norman E Hill, Joseph A Sikora
- Date: Nov 2001
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy
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Ask The Experts
Ask The Experts From a session at the 2001 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held in Lake Buena ... below the minimum standards. We then considered dynamic financial condition analysis. I believe the unified ...- Authors: Frank M Amrine, Andrew Bodine, Armand de Palo, Mark Freedman, Charles D Friedstat, James P Greaton, Meredith Ratajczak, William J Schreiner, Stephen N Steinig
- Date: Nov 2001
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting; Public Policy
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Accounting for Policyholder Dividends
Accounting for Policyholder Dividends This panel discussion session explored alternative methods ... or you could choose to have dynamic interest rates. If you choose dynamic interest rates, then the mere ...- Authors: Kenneth LaSorella, Darryl Wagner, Patricia Matson, Brian Purves
- Date: Oct 2001
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Public Policy
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GAAP Accounting For Derivatives: SFAS 133
GAAP Accounting For Derivatives: SFAS 133 Attendees will hear a brief summary of the major requirements ... either make changes as you go along, some sort of dynamic adjustment, or you'll terminate that hedge if ...- Authors: Cherri R Divin, Application Administrator, Deborah Whitmore
- Date: Oct 2001
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Stochastic DAC Unlocking for VariableAnnuity Products
Stochastic DAC Unlocking for VariableAnnuity Products Stochastic DAC Unlocking for Variable ... It may also be appropriate to incorpo- rate dynamic lapse assumptions in the model (i.e. higher lapses/transfers ...- Authors: Alastair G Longley-Cook, Richard E Shaw, Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Michael Sherrill
- Date: Mar 2001
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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General Session
adequacy. The SOA published, in early 1995, the Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis Handbook, which was ... actuary would prepare a viability analysis or dynamic financial analysis that includes new business ...- Authors: Errol Cramer, Douglas Doll, Sam Gutterman
- 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; Public Policy
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GAAP Issues - General
fixed-income percentage. You do need to have some dynamic lapse assumptions in the model to make it realistic ... much for those comments. There’s definitely a dynamic that exists among what the actuaries are trying ...- Authors: Alastair G Longley-Cook, John Morris, David White, Gregory Smith
- Date: Sep 2000
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Unified Valuation System Update
viability report. In the past, it might be called a Dynamic Financial Condition Analysis (DFCA) analysis. ... would have to do if they were going to implement a dynamic financial analysis (DFA)-type approach to financial ...- Authors: David C Jesionowski, David Sandberg, Donna C Novak, Sam H Dillard
- Date: Jun 2000
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models; Public Policy
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Unlocking FAS 97's Management Potential
the effect of current-year deviations may be "dynamic amortization." Eckman uses the term "catch-up" ... informed management of the product line. (2) Dynamic Amortization Adjustment -a~ L × (G,*- ~5 This ...- Authors: Bruce Darling
- Date: Oct 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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GAAP Reserving Practices for A&H Business
margins may offset this effect. Further, the dynamic adjustments to DAC make some adjustments for lapses ... a column for expected persis- tency, so that dynamic adjustments can be made at the end of each accounting ...- Authors: S Michael McLaughlin
- Date: Oct 1999
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Health & Disability
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GAAP Earnings Emergence: Impact of Assumptions and Practices
but that’s a gray area. Most companies have a dynamic adjustment for their FAS 60 products. They look ... your lapse assumption going forward. Keep your dynamic adjustment. At least your auditors will feel ...- Authors: William M Murphy, Roger W Smith, Vincent Y Y Tsang
- Date: Sep 1999
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Nontraditional Products
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Nontraditional Products 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, ... accounting; it really frees up your companies to look at dynamic hedging and some other creative alternatives.- Authors: Bruce Bengtson, Thomas Campbell, Kay Minnich, Michael Hughes, James T. Pearson
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Annuities>Equity-indexed annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Let's Make a Deal: Life and Health Mergers and Acquisitions
acquisition is going to affect stock price is a dynamic analysis. i don't mean to imply that it's cutanddry ... there's a somewhat new school of economics, the Dynamic Financial Analysis School, that believes you should ...- Authors: Charles Carroll, Herbert E Goodfriend, William R Horbatt
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance
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Ask The Experts
dramatically. The dynamic formulas that a lot of companies are using are probably not dynamic enough or they ... the issues that we have discussed, like the dynamic lapse assumption, policyholder behavior, and many ...- 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
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U.S. GAAP - Financial Reporting
U.S. GAAP - Financial Reporting This literature guide provides the user with a summary ... products such as universal life to accommodate their dynamic characteristics, investment contracts to account ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Feb 1997
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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GAAP for Mutuals - Current Status
issue that I want to just briefly touch on is the dynamic of locking prospectively. How do you get prospective ... complicated. This involves actually trying to fit the dynamic validation into your model; in other words, you’re ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Charles D Friedstat, Mark Hopfinger, Edward Robbins
- Date: Jun 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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GAAP/Purchase GAAP Issues
GAAP/Purchase GAAP Issues 1996 Valuation Actuary Symposium. Topics discussed in this session ... amount initially capitalized over time is extremely dynamic and unlocked. Your capitalization is unlocked ...- Authors: J Duran, Charles D Friedstat, Daniel J Kunesh, Edward Robbins
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Meeting the Needs for Financial Information
Meeting the Needs for Financial Information This session is about meeting the ... standards;Asset liability management=ALM;Capital management;Dynamic simulation models;Economic value;Embedded value;Fair ...- Authors: Bruce Darling, Michael E Mateja, R Stephen Radcliffe
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Public Policy
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U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting
U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Generally accepted accounting principles 'GAAP' ... products such as universal life to accommodate their dynamic characteristics, investment con- tracts to account ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Aug 1992
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Understanding Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP] and Statutory Profitability
Understanding Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP] and Statutory Profitability Presenters ... Another major deviation from FAS 60 is our use of dynamic assumptions. That is, we change our prospective ...- Authors: Randall Boushek, John W Brumbach, Paul S Graham, Craig R Raymond
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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Mutual Company GAAP
Mutual Company GAAP This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about mutual company ... FAS 97 have come in the area of what I called dynamic DAC, where FAS 97 provides that the stream of gross ...- Authors: Kriss Cloninger, Calvert A Jared, Robert LaLonde, Edward Robbins
- Date: Apr 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Source-of-Earnings Analysis under FAS 97 Universal Life Accounting
Method 2 calculation of total expected profit is dynamic; that is, it adjusts for the difference in actual ... approach, because the latter often uses either the dynamic worksheet method or the factor method to amortize ...- Authors: Joseph H Tan
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Universal life
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Amortizing Acquisition Expenses in Proportion to Premium Revenues
identifies some shortcomings of the traditional dynamic method and other published meth- ods. The paper ... explores the advantages and disadvantages of various dynamic adjustment methods under different test situations ...- Authors: Mark Evans
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
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GAAP Recoverability Issues for Interest-Sensitive Products
as we begin converting to FAS 97. Under this dynamic amortization we really have loss recognition as ... for gain recognition as we go because of this dynamic method of amortization. If a company were to decide ...- Authors: Ian M Charlton, Robert Crompton, John T Glass, William P Morrow
- Date: Jun 1988
- 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]
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Implementation of GAAP for Life Insurance Companies in Canada
Implementation of GAAP for Life Insurance Companies in Canada 1987 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This open ... that ac tuar ies must make greater use of dynamic assumpt ions . We th ink th is is pract ica ...- Authors: Morris Chambers, Marcel Larochelle, Kenneth A Wright
- Date: Jan 1987
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Current Topics In Financial Reporting
Current Topics In Financial Reporting Presented at October 1986 Annual Meeting. This session ... including new business levels, and, thus, have a dynamic rather than a static system for testing solvency ...- Authors: Wayne Kauth, William J Schreiner, Wayne S Upton, George R. Wallace
- Date: Oct 1986
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 'GAAP' Margins For Adverse Deviation
acquisition expense, or they use some type of dynamic method for adjusting worksheet results to actual ... the result of including these factor methods or dynamic methods, by and large, has been that acquisition ...- Authors: Kriss Cloninger, Douglas A Eckley, Norman E Hill, Floyd Martin
- Date: May 1985
- 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Accounting For Internal Replacement Programs
Accounting For Internal Replacement Programs Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This ... old, obsolete product is exchanged for the new, dynamic product. First, we'll look at the cost of discontinuing ...- Authors: Kriss Cloninger, Paul F Kolkman, Daniel J Kunesh, Howard L Rosen, Joseph A Sikora
- Date: May 1985
- 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>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Reserve Alternatives For New Products
rejected out of hand. We need some way to obtain a dynamic aspect for the reserve. The way I suggest, which ... would also need a way to make the benefit reserves dynamic. Because this method is cumbersome, I suggest holding ...- Authors: Charles Carroll, Douglas A Eckley, Paul F Kolkman, Charles A Nichols
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Accounting Issues For Insurance Companies
Accounting Issues For Insurance Companies This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting ... take that one step further and convert it into a dynamic approach instead of a static approach, the pre-set ...- Authors: Grace V Dillingham, Douglas A Eckley, Glen Gammill, Norman E Hill, Clark Ramsey, Neal N Stanley
- Date: May 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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The Purchase Accounting Quandry
The Purchase Accounting Quandry This article asks the question of how to account for the purchase ... an- nuities under New York's version of the dynamic valuation law; that law re- quiries a demonstration ...- Authors: Joe B Pharr
- Date: Feb 1983
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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GAAP Acquisition Expense Amortization Methodology
GAAP Acquisition Expense Amortization Methodology This paper discusses three methods for ... static approach with prescheduled amortization, a dynamic technique called the expense reserve factor method ...- Authors: Alan Goldberg, Thomas G Kabele, Lester Moskowitz, Claude Y Paquin, Joe B Pharr, Donald R Sondergeld
- Date: Oct 1978
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
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Measurement of Financial Results
you can bring in, and on a whole series of other dynamic factors, rather than the static factors that we ... measurement system might be characterized as a dynamic closed-end cycle. Future production capacity eventually ...- Authors: Donald D Cody, Richard S Robertson, Robert Shapiro, Harry D. Garber
- Date: May 1977
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
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Book Reviews and Notices
Book Reviews and Notices This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications. ... A. Retting and O. Nichols, Some Aspects of the Dynamic Projection of Benefits under the 1973 Social Security ...- Authors: Society of Actuaries
- Date: Oct 1975
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Pensions & Retirement
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On Calculating Delta-Ized Reserves - Actuarial Note
On Calculating Delta-Ized Reserves - Actuarial Note The actuarial profession is faced with ... flexible manner. Discount rates=Interest rates;Dynamic simulation models;Monte Carlo simulation;Statistical ...- Authors: William A Bailey, Cecil J Nesbitt, David G Halmstad
- Date: Oct 1974
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain