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Description: How to be better prepared to handle the requests, questions and follow-up needed to successfully manage a risk-focused financial examination.

Description: This article discusses how actuaries can determine whether they are qualified to do various kinds of actuarial work. The article refers to the code of professional conduct, the qualification standards, and the "look in the mirror" test. The article describes five case studies that provide examples of how to determine whether an actuary should accept a work assignment. A key conclusion is that actuaries are best protected if they use good professional judgment and do quality work.

Description: To comply with VM reporting requirements, what is the simplest path for a small company that has passed the Deterministic Exclusion Test and the Stochastic Exclusion Test?

Description: Can the potential benefits of a higher yield strategy be worth the operational and strategic risks?

Description: Describes using the new multi-risk scenario generator to create sensitivity tests at moderately adverse probability levels, resulting in margins to use for PBR.

Description: Feature article about the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) adopting its First Amendment to Regulation 213, Principle-Based Reserving (PBR) and the affects it will cause.

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Description: This article presented excerpts taken from a 1998 newsletter of the National Alliance of Life Companies regarding XXX. The topics covered included possible adoption timeline, basic reserves, unitary reserve test, deficiency reserves, deficiency mortality table, etc.

Description: This article summarizes some of the areas of concern in developing equity-indexed annuities for small companies.