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  • Embedded Volatility: Insight from Market Risk Benefit Roll-Forward
    Embedded Volatility: Insight from Market Risk Benefit Roll-Forward In this article, we collected ... can also introduce some volatility because the direct policy MRB is based on the company’s credit rating ...

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    • Authors: Su Su, Tina Guo, Yifeng Mu, Robert E Winawer
    • Date: Nov 2023
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • European CFO Embedded Value Guidelines
    information is supple- mentary to the company’s primary published financial statements (for example, U ... financial options and guarantees. This principle is a direct response to those concerns. This principle is ...

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    • Authors: William R Horbatt
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Embedded value; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Financial Reporter, July 2020, Issue 122
    disclosure into ratings determinations. The NAIC should direct regulators to treat this information as supplemental ... companies with inadequate reserves: the first are “primary” reserving standards tailored to individual classes ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jul 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Financial Reporter, December 2019, Issue 119
    members through a variety of media: • We are the primary sponsoring section of the Valuation Actuary Symposium ... over from current standards— assessments exclude a direct charge (front-end loads) and include a GAAP accrual ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2019
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • An Update on International Accounting Standards for Insurance
    these develop- ments. The IAA now serves as the primary voice of the actuarial profession on international ... contracts where payment is in services (e.g., managed care organizations), and a number of other types of ...

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    • Authors: Bruce Moore
    • Date: Jun 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • The Home Stretch
    fixed-fee service contracts that have as their primary purpose the provision of services. The boards ... related to successful acquisition efforts; and b) direct costs that are related to the acquisition of a ...

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    • Authors: Henry Siegel
    • Date: Jun 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Potential Modeling Challenges in a Negative Interest Rate Environment
    market rate is negative). For a two-sided function, care must be taken to ensure that the additive adjustment ... appropriately under negative interest rates. However, care should be taken to ensure that there are no floors ...

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    • Authors: Zohair Motiwalla
    • Date: Mar 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Actuarial Aspects of SOX 404
    whether the processes are con- nected with the direct production of financial results. Some have also ... taking corrective action As the PCOAB stated, “the primary benefit of an effective internal control structure… ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Laura J Hay
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: Communication; Communication>Difficult message delivery; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Financial reporting September, 2016
    reserve true up—unlocking, additional accrual, and direct offset. Table 5 illustrates those components, with ... predictable effect is a direct result of the matching principle. Since the primary purpose of the reserve ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • S&P Global’s Proposed Capital Model Changes and its Implication to U.S. Life Insurance Companies
    take actions to reduce the duration gap. So special care must be taken for lines of business with larger ... universal life, structured settlements, and long-term care, where duration mismatches of upwards of five years ...

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    • Authors: Yiru (Eve) Sun, Seong Weon Park, Jin-Heok John Choi
    • Date: Aug 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Strategic Insight and Integration
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Financial Reporting & Accounting