Description: Under the leadership of recent and current Section chairs, your Council has committed to creating a new textbook on U.S. GAAP for life insurance company actuaries.

Description: This article compares earnings emergence under five popular world-wide accounting bases for two insurance products, term life and fixed deferred annuity.

Description: The September 2014 Issue of the Financial Reporting Section's newsletter, The Financial Reporter

Description: The International Accounting Standards Board issued a Discussion Paper, Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts, discussing the many issues surrounding accounting for insurance contracts and presenting current views in a number of areas. The SOA published a research report on the impact of these Preliminary Views - which is summarized chapter-by-chapter in this article.

Description: This article discusses the current state of the IAIS' initiative on their group Insurance Capital Standard.

Description: A pension actuary and a life actuary collaborate to express public pension liability and asset issues in terms and figures that an insurer would use

Description: This article provides highlights of a team of delegates from the Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan visit to Chicago. From International Section News, October 2004, Issue No. 34.

Description: This article highlights the two days the Republic of China Delegates spent in the Chicago area meeting with Actuaries in Chicago.

Description: Recap of the U.S. GAAP seminar in Hong Kong including principles of GAAP, expenses, product classification, non-par products (life and health), par products, fund-based products, payout annuities, investment contracts, investment accounting, shadow accounts, internal replacements, purchase accounting, reinsurance accounting, SoP 03-1, SoP 05-1

Description: This article is a recap of three international actuarial meetings that were held back-to-back-to-back in March 2010.