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Study Group: Insurance Financial Statement Analysts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 25

This study group may include chief financial officers, chartered public accountants, controllers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as finance, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting and fraud, financial accounting and reporting, bankruptcy, pension benefits, cash flow, company valuation, working capital, hedge accounting, and mergers and acquisition, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Dan Gode, Co-Founder, Almaris E-Learning SystemsDan Gode
Co-Founder
Almaris E-Learning Systems

Dan Gode is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law at New York University Stern School of Business. He is also the Co-Founder of Almaris E-Learning Systems. Professor Gode teaches courses in corporate financial accounting and modeling and projecting financial statements....

Raj Mehra, President & Founder, Chelsea Advisory ServicesRaj Mehra
President & Founder
Chelsea Advisory Services

Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of experience in areas such as banking, subprime mortgages, credit card, auto and student lending. Mr. Mehra is an expert in securitization and structured...

GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)

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Analysis of: Hedge funds assess exposure to banks | www.ft.com

Institutional investors must ask hedge funds how they are assessing counterparty risk and what that means in terms of collateral management.

Analysis of: In Major Projects, Agreeing Not To Disagree | www.nytimes.com

1. Plan sponsors should take a leadership role in promoting best practices and good pension governance. 2. Pension fiduciaries should embrace accountability and transparency. 3. Arguments against excessive government regulation apply today as well as they did fifty years ago when Atlas Shrugged was...

1. Many financial institutions are reporting losses related to valuation problems. 2. Institutional investors are on the hook to properly vet external asset managers. This includes asking tough questions about their valuation processes.

1. Pension fiduciaries must ask tough questions about a hedge fund's valuation policies and procedures. 2. There are many "tricks" that can be played when reporting valuations of "hard-to-value" instruments.

Analysis of: U.S. Investors Face an Age of Murky Pricing | online.wsj.com

1. Pension fiduciaries must understand how their external asset managers value "hard-to-value" assets. 2. Fiduciaries could face personal and professional liability for failing to do proper oversight of external money managers with respect to asset valuation. 3. Model risk is real and must be addressed...

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