Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 Addresses a variety of financial reporting issues of interest to the attendees at a meeting of Valuation Actuaries.

Description: Discussion of FAS 133 Implementation Issue B36 relating to the implications for the financial reporting of modco and similar reinsurance treaties where the assuming company assumes some investment risk from assets still owned by the ceding company.

Description: The authors provide clarification, specifically related to the American Academy of Actuaries’ Annuity Reserves Working Group, to the article, “Statutory Reserving for Fixed Indexed Annuities with Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits,” published in the September 2012 issue of The Financial Reporter.

Description: This paper discusses the principles found in the Academy of Actuaries Committee on Financial Reporting Principles' Recommendation 4, Reinsurance Ceded by Life Insurance Companies and proposes solutions to certain problems of implementation, and identifies items where there might be differences of opinion. Followed by discussion papers submitted by 2 authors

Description: The paper describes an approach for determining reserves for reinsurance accepted for use in financial statements prepared according to generally accepted accounting principles. Followed by a discussion paper submitted

Description: The rapid pace of change within the reinsurance sector over the past few years has given way to the permutations of a “new reality” that is being shaped by abundant capacity from traditional and alternative sources.

Description: This panel discussion, which occurred at the May 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Colorado Springs, presented a discussion on developments related to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles- GAAP. The discussion included: FASB reformulation of audit guide, treatment of single premium deferred annuities, problems of applying GAAP principles to Universal Life, and a discussion of papers titled: a. A Policy-Year Model for GAAP Valuation of Coinsurance and Modified Coinsuranee, by David N. Becker and Michael V. Eckman and, b. GAAP for Nonguaranteed Premium Life Insurance, by Kriss Cloninger III.

Description: Discussion of the latest FASB and IASB updates with respect to life insurance company financial reporting issues.

Description: Discusses statutory accounting variations, credit-for-reinsurance rules [surplus-relief regulation, security for unauthorized reinsurance, and mirror reserving], GAAP vs. statutory accounting, and an update on recent reinsurance-related activities of the AICPA and the American Academy of Actuaries. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Unintended consequences of certain approaches used by companies to satisfy FAS 113 reinsurance accounting.