Description: Presented at June 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses adjustments mutual company actuaries have to make after demutualization: financial reporting, product design and pricing, profit measures, and roles and opportunities.

Description: IFRS 17 is a significant change that requires insurers to invest time and resources. The presenters will address wider implications of the new standard, and a senior leaders' panel will cover a number of perspectives. They will address the latest developments of the standard and interpretations, emerging technology that is accelerating implementation, insights from implementing IFRS 17 in Canada and globally, reinsurance considerations and opportunities for the actuarial profession.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 12C: The Evolving Role of Actuaries in a Principles-Based World 10.29.21 Recording

Description: This discussion provides a review of the critical relationships with CPA counterparts on topics such as GAAP, Pension Audit Guide, and the accounting practices for mutual life companies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: Under the new reporting regimes actuaries have the opportunity to become leaders for all aspects of cash flows and related insights, rather than just the reserve change line on the income statement, to help educate the organization and informed business decisions. This session will provide practical examples and scenarios where actuaries take on leadership roles to drive reporting compliance and organizational changes; as well as provide an opportunity to discuss what didn’t work as well when it came to deploying new technologies to the valuation and pricing teams.

Description: From a session at the 2000 Valuation Actuary Symposium held in Washington DC, September 14-15, 2000 In this session the panelists discussed the issues related to the actuarial aspects associated with the demutualization process. The issues discussed included: • Developing historical and prospective assumptions • Aligning the models used in the company’s philosophy regarding dividend determination and pricing • Creating experience assumptions when less-than-perfect data exist • Determining who gets what • Complying with actuarial and accounting standards

Description: This 1978 session discussed actuarial certifications and opinions rendered with emphasis on i. The who, what, how and by whom, and 2. Underlying methods, principles, practices and so forth and the disclosure thereof. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Description: Companies exempt from PBR can benefit by borrowing ideas and lessons learned from companies that perform and operate in a PBR world. The presenters will discuss VM requirements related to governance policies, as well as assumption and margin setting, plus model validations and controls which can benefit smaller insurance companies. Attendees will learn about new actuarial practices and how the PBR methodology and Valuation Manual can influence their work and highlight available resources.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews life insurance company financial reporting including financial reporting developments in Canada and the U.S., recent accounting developments for non-guaranteed premium products and new issues relating to the U.S. statutory actuarial opinion. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers emerging issues in statutory and GAAP financial reporting as well as activity with respect to actuarial principles.