Description: Discussion of the latest FASB and IASB updates with respect to life insurance company financial reporting issues.

Description: Feature article describing the proceedings and results of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) in The Hague in May 2013.

Description: Feature article asking seven questions raised by the IASB’s and FASB’s recent changes to the insurance contracts accounting standard.

Description: This research scorecard will keep section members informed about research projects sponsored or co-sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: The September 2013 issue of the Financial Reporting Section’s newsletter, The Financial Reporter.

Description: Letter from the chairperson of the Financial Reporting section describing the changes that are in store for the financial reporting industry and the SOA’s Financial Reporting section.

Description: The authors provide clarification, specifically related to the American Academy of Actuaries’ Annuity Reserves Working Group, to the article, “Statutory Reserving for Fixed Indexed Annuities with Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits,” published in the September 2012 issue of The Financial Reporter.

Description: This is the second in a series of articles about accounting for reinsurance under GAAP Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts (LDTI). It looks at GAAP, as amended by LDTI, as if there were no precedent, specifically focused on products that require net premium reserves. With possible objectives for compliance, performance, and simplicity, it describes calculation techniques that could achieve all three objectives for a variety of long-duration reinsurance contracts.

Description: This article focuses on the market risk benefit (MRB) measurement model and will examine a generic guaranteed minimum death benefit (GMDB) in the context of LDTI and its impact from both the ceding entity and the reinsurer standpoints.