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Impact of Proposed Health Care Reform on Smaller Insurance Companies
Impact of Proposed Health Care Reform on Smaller Insurance Companies This article discusses the potential ... potential characteristics of health care reform and the associated impact on small insurance companies.- Authors: Cabe Chadick, David Dillon
- Date: Nov 2009
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy
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Entering the Equity-Indexed Market through Alliances
Entering the Equity-Indexed Market through Alliances This article discusses how small insurance ... wherein there is one primary company and one or more secondary companies. The primary company would perform ...- Authors: Jerry Enoch
- Date: May 1998
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Annuities>Equity-indexed annuities; Life Insurance
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Product Development Consideration for a Simplified Issue Product
Product Development Consideration for a Simplified Issue Product Recently, there has ... reviewed over 40 such products, ranging from vanilla direct-marketed products to high-end single premium immediate ...- Authors: Edward Hui
- Date: Jun 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Annuities; Life Insurance
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Don’t Forget Your Reinsurer Revisited –15 Years Later
interaction and discussion going on between the direct company actuaries and the reinsurance actuaries ... reinsurance volume assumed (by reinsurers) and ceded (by direct companies) requires additional lead time to develop ...- Authors: Philip Velazquez
- Date: Nov 2005
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Life Insurance; Reinsurance
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Modeling CMOs
which the facing small insurers who want to issue primary company will manage the equity-indexed annuities ... the in assets, has chosen to enter the equity- primary company can serve as the basis indexed marketplace ...- Authors: DALE ALLEN HALL
- Date: May 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
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Managing Model Risk
model risk. Why is this a growing challenge? The primary reason is that the models now coming into play ... sign-offs, and other drudge-work that seems of little direct benefit. But you should know that accounting controls ...- Authors: Trevor Howes
- Date: Jan 2012
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Tax Update
important element of both accounting systems. The primary purpose of the deferred tax concept is to account ... treatment, wherein changes in DTAs and DTLs are a direct adjustment to capital and surplus. • Other items ...- Authors: Edward Robbins, Brian King
- Date: Nov 2009
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
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Updated Regulatory Gamut—From OFC to PBR and In Between
provision that, on heavily coinsured term insurance, direct versus ceded modal pre- mium differences would ... annuities and health insurance, including long-term care. Summary As always, there are a host of regulatory ...- Authors: Norman E Hill
- Date: Nov 2009
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Public Policy
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Description of the Development Process for the 2003 GRET Factors
categories of distri- bution systems: branch office, direct marketing, home service and all other. Companies ... Factors $66.00 $1.15 73% $33.00 Branch Office Direct Marketing Home Service Other Total– Weighted ...- Authors: Timothy J Harris
- Date: Nov 2002
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Life Insurance>Expenses - Life Insurance
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Back to Basics: Which Duration Is Best?
11 MAY 1998 small talk PAGE 15 “The primary objective of duration is to explain a bond’s or ... Editor’s Note: The following article is The primary objective of duration is ates rise by only 10 bps ...- Authors: Teri Geske
- Date: May 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Small Talk
- Topics: Finance & Investments