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  • Fair Value: Yin and Yang

    Fair Value: Yin and Yang This article discusses fair value reporting for insurance companies and how to get fair value in the real world. Discount rates=Interest rates;Generally Accepted ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: Aug 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Case 3: Improving LTC Projections with Predictive Analytics

    Case 3: Improving LTC Projections with Predictive Analytics Third article in a series on how to use predictive analytics to improve the development of long-term care projection assumptions.

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    • Authors: Missy Gordon, Joseph Long
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; 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: Long-Term Care News
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Long-term care - Experience Studies & Data; Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Predictive Analytics
  • Life Insurance Acceleration Riders

    Life Insurance Acceleration Riders This article gives an overview of the types of chronic illness acceleration riders that are now becoming prevalent in the US life insurance marketplace. The ...

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    • Authors: James Filmore
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Term Conversions – Pricing and Reserves

    Term Conversions – Pricing and Reserves A method to price a term life policy to properly reflect the post conversion experience. Also reserving methods, in both the term and perm products. term ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Term life; Life Insurance>Whole life
  • Unblocking Blockchain

    Unblocking Blockchain Interest in blockchain is high among insurers and reinsurers. While it’s not universally useful the technology does merit continued closer investigation. product ...

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    • Authors: Ross Campbell, Ingemar Svensson
    • Date: Mar 2018
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Mortality Improvement: The Ultimate Onion

    Mortality Improvement: The Ultimate Onion Identifies current trends and considerations when setting the mortality improvement assumption for individual life insurance in the US. Life reinsurance; ...

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    • Authors: Jay Biehl, Edward Hui
    • Date: Nov 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography; Demography>Longevity; Demography>Population data; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Predictive Analytics; Reinsurance>Life reinsurance; Reinsurance>General reinsurance
  • Rethinking the Ratings-Based Approach

    Rethinking the Ratings-Based Approach Credit ratings have played an essential role in the financial system and have been used extensively by market participants. Despite their wide use in the ...

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    • Authors: Shuyi He
    • Date: Feb 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Risk Management
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Systematic risk
  • The Art of Stochastic Simulation in the Financial Reporting World: An Overview of Stochastic Simulation

    The Art of Stochastic Simulation in the Financial Reporting World: An Overview of Stochastic Simulation An Overview of Stochastic Simulation modeling techniques and usages Conditional Tail ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Harasym
    • Date: Sep 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • On the Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities

    On the Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities Analysis of IASB position on the discount rate to use in computing the Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities Discount rates=Interest rates;Fair value ...

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    • Authors: Donald Solow
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Economics>Financial economics; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting
  • Culture War: Embedding Corporate Risk-Intelligence

    Culture War: Embedding Corporate Risk-Intelligence ERM may exist in name only without a risk-aware culture. The article uses battle-tested approaches & behavioral insights to drive change ...

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    • Authors: Damon Levine
    • Date: Aug 2017
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; 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: Risk Management
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management