Description: Sponsored by the SOA's Product Development Section, Financial Reporting Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, this report examines the application of credibility theory in the Canadian life insurance industry.

Description: This study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 64, March 2006.

Description: Situated at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and economics, behavioral economics (BE) centers on applying an honest understanding of human behavior to practical problems. This report is designed to provide general familiarity to the reader interested in the subject of BE and motivate additional research on the topic.

Description: This presentation is an open forum, session 48OF, from the 2004 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 14-15 in San Antonio, TX. The panelists focus on emerging U.S. GAAP accounting issues, and the implementation issues encountered by affected companies. The panelists discuss Statement of Position [SOP] 03-1 on nontraditional long-duration life insurance contracts, the SOP on internal replacements, and the impact of the Derivatives Implementation Group issue B36 on embedded derivatives for modified coinsurance and funds withheld reinsurance. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This case study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.

Description: Excel spreadsheet showing immediate annuity example of GAAP benefit reserves and Unearned Revenue Liability calculation from the U.S. GAAP & IFRS: Today and Tomorrow conference in New York in September of 2010.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 66, September 2006.

Description: Excel spreadsheet example of GAAP calculations for an immediate annuity showing benefit reserves, DAC, and Unearned Revenue Liability [URL] from the 2010 U.S. GAAP & IFRS conference in New York.

Description: This teaching session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium covers the practical aspects of implementing GAAP reserves and sales inducements under Statement of Position 03-1 on Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts.