Description: Summarizes financial reporting regulatory developments from April - June.

Description: The 2020 edition of the Valuation Manual permits mortality data aggregation thereby enhancing credibility but also has accompanying requirements and addresses calculation of company experience rates.

Description: Since IFRS17 draft was issued in June 2019, IASB has discussed various important issues, such as the selection of B137 and the judgment to investment components. This session will be focused on the discussion and sharing of these aspects, to help understand the latest developments. At the same time, actuaries played an important role in the implementation of IFRS 17. The speaker will share the important work of actuaries in the implementation and application of IFRS 17 through the observation of the previous implementation process.

Description: FASB has provided broad guidance for application of the targeted improvements in Actuarial Standards Update 2018-12 for U.S GAAP financial reporting. However, the broad guidance provided leads to several interpretation and modeling challenges for life insurance, annuity, disability and LTC products. The presenters focus these challenges and possible methods to address them. Audience participation is encouraged. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Describe the changes made to U.S. GAAP under the targeted improvements - Explain various interpretations of modeling products under the changes to U.S. GAAP

Description: While most actuaries work for companies and have as a primary objective the financial success of their employers, regulatory actuaries primarily serve the public interest. In part one of this presentation, we will explore the role of actuaries whose priority is to serve the public interest. Regulation is developed by a deliberative process that includes regulators, the American Academy of Actuaries, trade associations and the companies that will be affected by the regulation. In part two of this session, we will present a series of vignettes each focusing on recent updates to the Valuation Manual. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will have a deeper appreciation of what goes on behind the scenes in the development of regulation.

Description: This is the traditional life excel spreadsheet example from this presentation on GAAP for traditional products under FAS60. This was part of the U.S. GAAP & IFRS: Today and Tomorrow conference held in New York in September of 2010.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Financial Reporting Section is pleased to make available a new report examining the International Standards Board’s (IASB) Re-Exposure draft, Insurance Contracts, issued in June 2013. Performed by Rodrigo Careaga, Tara Hansen, Asad Khalid, and Bruce Rosner of Ernst & Young LLP, this study illustrates differences in earnings emergence for new business projections between current US GAAP and the proposed standard for a sample of 12 products. Additionally, it shows the impact on earnings emergence of various sensitivity tests.

Description: This project examines how companies perform deterministic scenario analysis, focusing on a worldwide IT disruption and its operational impacts. It highlights the use of table-top exercises to estimate direct and indirect effects, leveraging senior managers' experience.

Description: Accounting Standards Update No. 2018-12, Financial Services – Insurance (Topic 944): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts (LDTI) has been effective for most large, public business entities since 2023 and will be effective for other insurers in 2025. While the guidance clarifies the need for incorporating claim liabilities and premium accrual balances in the liability for future policy benefits (LFPB) under LDTI, companies may still have questions given there are limited details available around the techniques used in practice. In this article, we demonstrate the need for incorporating claim liabilities and premium accrual balances in the LFPB under LDTI. We also look at two potential approaches of incorporating these accrual balances.

Description: Learn about the innovations of life & health products and distribution in the Asia market.