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  • Case Study - Impact of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017
    Case Study - Impact of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017 An overall analysis and attribution analysis of the impacts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for certain life insurance contracts. Taxation; ...

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    • Authors: Christopher Zuiker, Dylan Strother
    • Date: Sep 2018
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • PBA Corner
    PBA Corner Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF VM-20 Subgroup activities and the Academy’s Life Reserve Working Group dealing with feedback from the ...

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    • Authors: Karen Rudolph
    • Date: Sep 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • More Efficient Monte Carlo Simulations for Mortality Assumption Testing
    More Efficient Monte Carlo Simulations for Mortality Assumption Testing More Efficient Monte Carlo Simulations for Mortality Assumption Testing Monte Carlo simulation;Mortality ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Robbins
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • Considerations for Indexed Universal Life under PBR
    Considerations for Indexed Universal Life under PBR The article highlights key considerations as companies begin to reserve for their IUL products under PBR. principles-based reserves ...

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    • Authors: Ye Yang, Erzhe Zhang, Nicholas Dunn
    • Date: Dec 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; 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>Statutory accounting; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Universal life
  • Asset Modeling Challenges for VM-20 Projections
    Asset Modeling Challenges for VM-20 Projections This article describes methods for addressing technical challenges related to modeling asset cash flows for PBR reserve projections. asset ...

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    • Authors: Benjamin Slutsker, Reanna Nicholsen, Jason Kehrberg
    • 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: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
  • Implementation of SOP 03-1 for Lapse Protected Life Products
    Implementation of SOP 03-1 for Lapse Protected Life Products Implementation of Statement of Position 03-1 for Lapse Protected Life Products Accounting standards;Secondary guarantees;Universal ...

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    • Authors: David N Cook, Bradley M Smith
    • Date: May 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; 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; Life Insurance>Secondary guarantees
  • PBR: What will regulators be looking for?
    PBR: What will regulators be looking for? A discussion of regulatory oversight of PBR with two former regulators to give some insight into how your company should be preparing for new PBR ...

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    • Authors: Andrew Rarus, Timothy Cardinal, Leonard Mangini, Leslie Jones
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0
    GAAP Targeted Improvements: Unlocking 2.0 Presents a practical solution to some of the distortion caused by a typical application of the retrospective assumption update (unlocking) method.

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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
  • GAAP Targeted Improvements—Unlocking Persistency
    GAAP Targeted Improvements—Unlocking Persistency Continues the look from previous articles at unlocking of traditional contract valuation assumptions, this time examining the effects of lapses.

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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
  • Estimating Incurred But Not Reported Life Claims
    Estimating Incurred But Not Reported Life Claims This article is designed to provide a statistical method for reviewing the accuracy of the incurred but not reported IBNR life claim liability ...

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    • Authors: Alfred Raws
    • Date: Dec 2005
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance