Description: COLIFR Committee on Life Insurance Financial Reporting Corner briefly discusses curent issues such as RBC, GMDB for Variable Life, reservinf for VAGLBs, reserves for Equity Index UL, GAAP DAC for internal replacements an a proposed revised AOMR.

Description: The “X” Factor — Are You Ready? by Larry Gorski from The Financial Reporter, June 2000, Issue No. 42.

Description: 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 VM-20 impact study.

Description: Illustrates key differences, in earnings for a segment of term insurance, between current GAAP standards and GAAP targeted improvements (based on tentative board decisions preceding the release of an exposure draft).

Description: This article summarizes recent proposed changes to the Valuation Manual that might take effect for 2019 valuations for PBR business.

Description: As companies implement PBR, this article outlines challenges regarding the treatment of accelerated underwriting under VM-20 and in light of future innovation.

Description: An overall analysis and attribution analysis of the impacts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for certain life insurance contracts.

Description: More Efficient Monte Carlo Simulations for Mortality Assumption Testing

Description: This article compares earnings emergence under five popular world-wide accounting bases for two insurance products, term life and fixed deferred annuity.

Description: 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 requirements.