Description: This article looks at the purpose of the closed block, how it works, what some of the drawbacks are, the implementation of the concept and if there are any preferable alternatives to the closed block. From Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Monograph, M-AS99-1.

Description: Discussion of potential volatility to non-participating long-duration traditional contract reserves under US GAAP targeted improvements to accounting for long-duration insurance contracts. Discusses the impact of revising assumptions as well as interaction of revising assumptions with changes to discount rates.

Description: This paper examines inclusion of the value of future new business in value-added financial reporting. The objective of the paper is to develop methods to provide useful information to management that links the pricing, planning and reporting process.

Description: This article provides an update, as of October 2023, on Financial Reporting Section research projects in process and those recently completed.

Description: Latest development in IFRS 17 including a first look at companies disclosures and financial impacts, as well as a discussion of some of the run time issues that companies face.

Description: This 1978 panel discussion was on new actuarial standards for in Canada. Topics covered included: 1. The flexibility afforded the Canadian Valuation Actuary under the new Insurance Acts. 2. A comparison to the current GAAP and statutory reporting requirements in the U.S. and to the reporting requirements in the United Kingdom.

Description: This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology.

Description: This report identifies the risks that can affect insurance company solvency, provides information and opinions on techniques currently available, and comments on what additional research may be necessary.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, A Practical Method of Forecasting a Life Insurance Company's Gross Operating Earnings for the Current Year by J. Barrett Walker. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: This session at the 1989 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the topic of current and anticipated future developments of solvency standards in Canada.