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100

[Exact] Date we announced acquisition by MYL

2/7/2025

100

Department led by Senior VP & CFO, Drew Love

Finance

100

System for recording payroll

Dayforce

100

Reason we care about Operating ("Op") Profit

Key metric on which performance is judged

100

LGA VP, General Counsel & Secretary

Bryan Newcombe

100

Meiji's external audit firm

KPMG

100

Copy and paste shortcuts

Ctrl-C; Ctrl-V

100

Country celebrating 250th anniversary!

USA!

200

Year Legal & General Retirement America formed to provide de-risking solutions

2015

200

Service-oriented dept with focus on creating a digistal processing envornment while being a cost-effective provider of network and application services to enhance and support LGA business operations

IT

200

System for reporting application incidents and service requests

IT Service Portal

200

Distinction between Op Profit v Investment Variance ("IV")

Op Profit measures the performance in the year presumed to be under management control

200

SVP and Chief Operations Officer

Michelle Buswell

200

Concept of separate preparers and reviewers

Segregation of duties

200

Formula that delivers and if/then type result

=IF

200

Prominent founding father who made his signature disproportionately large on the Declaration of Independence so King George III could read it without his glasses

John Hancock

300

Year Banner buys William Penn LIC of NY and William Penn America

1989

300

Department comprised of Actuarial Second Line Support, Compliance, Operational Risk Management, and Tech and Data Risk Management

Risk

300

Tool allowing us to break digital application records by decreasing average submit to paid cycle time and providing "instant decisions."

Horizon

300

Amortization of CS Margin means release of profit into Profit & Loss….Annualized CSM run-off rate (whole% range of #-#%)

8-9%

300

Longest tenured leader, beginning career with Gelico

Barbara Esau

300

Audit which received an elusive "Satsifactory" rating!!

What is the statutory financial reporting audit?

300

=Count v =CountA

First counts only values; second counts all cells with data

300

Original colonies that officially signed the Declaration of Independence

PA, NY, NJ, GA, MD, and VA

400

Year Gelico is acquired by L&G Group PLC

1981

400

Led by Fred Tavan, some functions of this dept are to design and implement competitive an profitable products, and to maximize value and mitigate risk taken for existing business.

Actuarial Pricing [& Underwriting]

400

Forum for requesting change.  Aims to help senior management maintain project oversight in pursuit of LGA's strategic goals and takes technical feasibility into account.

FrontDoor

400

Insurance experience variances

Actuals =/expected

400

Party responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business, ensuring service excellence, continued distribution expansion and achievement of the digital transformation strategy.

CEO/Mark Holweger

400

Audit resulted in Yolanda and Elizabeth having the ability to be back up wire approvers

What is bank account audit?  What is finding that there must be two distinct in portal wire approvers?

400

LGA can directly create forms using Microsoft forms.  To easily create forms in Excel, which Ribbon function does one use?

What is Insert Forms?

400

Which city(ies) served as the first capital city of the new national government established under the US Constitution?

Philadelphia (1774-1800) (also before DC:  Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, and NYC)

500

Year six respected lawyers met in London and eventually formed what is now LGAS

1836

500

Provide support, service and assistance to all LGA sites in the achievement of our corporate objectives.

Corporate Services

500

Resource for obtaining brand guidelines and quick links

Brandfolder

500

Two biggest drivers of Op Profit

CSM/RA release; NDA expenses

500

Leader spent 23 years with Prudential, and served as AVP of Internal Audit at Penn Mutual LIC.

Amy Butler

500

Audit that found controls over data conversion and reconciliation, among other things, to be mostly designed appropriately, but some improvement needed to address gaps in the governance over User Acceptance Testing.

What is the Clearwater Investment Accounting Conversion audit?

500

Take that if/then further with a better formula for stacking multiple conditions

'=IFS; ex: =IFS(A2>90,"A", A2>=80, "B", A2>=70,"C)"

500

What is the offical name of the 250th anniversary of the USA?

the Semiquincentennnial (other answers:  America250, Freedom250, Sestercentennial, Quarter Millennium, The Big Tw-Five-Oh)