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

Description: This article investigates how financial reporting will change once Solvency II becomes business as usual.

Description: Discuss different approaches of XXX and AXXX relief solutions

Description: Explains the more granular breakout of bond RBC factors proposed to the NAIC. Evaluates alternative asset allocation choices for insurers under the new rules.

Description: Describes how the mantra of 'tax cuts will pay for themselves" along with the political unwillingness to cut spending (extant since the 1980s), has led to this increasing debt problem in the U.S., reaching $17 trillion at time of writing. Other countries are behaving in a similar fashion, and it can be only a matter of time before the globe may reach another crisis, this time based on excessive government debt coupled with fewer interested investors.

Description: The article focuses on the need to develop a strategy for investing surplus resulting from the buildup of significant excess capital. The author discusses three principles on which a company can base its surplus investment strategy, including the risk/return preference of the client, attribution of surplus to the products and an investment strategy based on all company risks.

Description: Quarterly update on regulatory trends of interest to financial reporting actuaries.

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

Description: Feature article discussing the insurance industry in Australia.

Description: Discussion of how meaningful GAAP ROE is as a measurement of management performance or how well management has deployed capital over a reporting period.