Description: Summarizes the major provisions of the International Accounting Standards Board’s recent exposure draft entitled Insurance Contracts, regarding a full accounting standard for insurance.

Description: The NAIC is working with state insurance departments to replace the existing rules-based valuation laws with principle-based valuation laws. On the GAAP front, both the International Accounting Standards Board, which sets GAAP accounting guidance for many countries outside the United States, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which promulgates GAAP guidance in the United States, are moving toward a “current estimate” standard of valuation, which often results in a fair value or similar measurement basis. This article reviews the IASB’s discussion paper on insurance valuation and the American Academy of Actuaries’ response to it.

Description: This article addresses the key capital and risk management issues immediately confronting the industry.

Description: In this article, the author gives an overview a number of Enterprise Risk Management ERM issues that arise when one considers the impact of income tax on a fair value accounting system.

Description: Feature article discussing the actuarial response to the global financial crisis and the actuary’s influence on IFRS.

Description: Feature article discussing the use of fair value or market consistent measurement for the valuation of insurance liabilities.

Description: International Accounting Standards: a discussion of Exposure Draft 5 dealing with specific requirements for insurance companies

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 33PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists provide an update of the 2002 progress made by the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] in moving to a type of fair-value reporting as presented in the IASB’s draft statement of position on insurance accounting. The panelists then present arguments supporting and opposing fair-value reporting, including comparison with U.S. GAAP accounting. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: Panelists in this session at the 2004 Valuation Actuary Symposium discuss current embedded value and fair-value practices, similarities and differences between embedded value and fair value, and benefits and drawbacks of embedded value, fair value and other measurement systems for internal management purposes.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. Noting that the regulatory authorities have been talking about the need to modify GAAP and statutory balance sheets to more closely reflect market values, with most of the focus on the market value of assets, the panelists discuss current regulatory thinking, including with respect to disclosures, problems associated with looking only at assets [and not liabilities], practical implications, and use of results as a management tool. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.