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: Update on IFRS 17 including news, how IFRS 17 is impacting companies financials, comparisons to LDTI, and KPIs.

Description: This article highlights some key implications for onerous contracts under IFRS 17.

Description: Risk adjustment is needed under IFRS 17 to reflect the compensation that a company requires for bearing the uncertainty about the amount and timing of the cash flows that arises from non-financial risk. Companies are also required to disclose the method and confidence level used for the calculation of the RA. However, IFRS 17 doesn’t specify a method and a confidence level, nor does it provide a list of specific risks that are considered to be non-financial risk. Companies need to define them based on their own preferences or existing practices. This article will introduce available approaches and discuss the confidence level approach with potential consideration stemming from industry preferences and illustrative examples.

Description: This article discusses key considerations and differences in measurement requirements between IFRS 17 and LDTI, leveraging a term insurance example to illustrate potential impacts on liabilities and, ultimately, earnings emergence.

Description: The article addresses treatment of products with indirect participating features (e.g. declared credited rates) under IFRS 17. Some of the questions that are answered include classification, stochastic modeling requirements, application of the illiquidity premium, methods to systematically allocate between P&L and OCI, and use of locked in discount rates for CSM purposes.

Description: This article discusses the possible factors that could impact shareholders' reported equity upon transition from IFRS 4 to IFRS 17. It classifies these factors in two categories: 'Factors Related to Insurer's Business and Accounting Practices up to the Transition Date' and 'Factors Related to Implementation of IFRS 17'. It also briefly discusses improvements that are expected in the financial statements from adopting IFRS 17.

Description: Description of IAA Risk Adjustment Monograph. The purpose of the monograph is to assist actuaries with the some suggested technical methods in measuring a Risk Adjustment as required for IFRS 17. Examples are given, including translations to confidence interval.

Description: The article focuses on implementation considerations for insurance companies that will be implementing both IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements. Many of the practical considerations are common to both implementations and will also be of interest to readers who are only implementing one of these changes.

Description: Article discussing recent developments in financial reporting research by the Section: 3 new PBA projects, stochastic pricing of embedded options, and comparison of results under IFRS and GAAP.