Description: Feature article asking seven questions raised by the IASB’s and FASB’s recent changes to the insurance contracts accounting standard.

Description: With coinsurance of an existing block of long-duration insurance contracts, there may be existing reinsurance that remains in force. The new coinsurance is typically net of such “inuring reinsurance.” In this article, we look at approaches that the new reinsurer might apply to account for the effects of inuring reinsurance.

Description: This research scorecard will keep section members informed about research projects sponsored or co-sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: The September 2013 issue of the Financial Reporting Section’s newsletter, The Financial Reporter.

Description: Letter from the chairperson of the Financial Reporting section describing the changes that are in store for the financial reporting industry and the SOA’s Financial Reporting section.

Description: Discusses reinsurance accounting guidelines related to current regulations.

Description: The authors provide clarification, specifically related to the American Academy of Actuaries’ Annuity Reserves Working Group, to the article, “Statutory Reserving for Fixed Indexed Annuities with Guaranteed Lifetime Withdrawal Benefits,” published in the September 2012 issue of The Financial Reporter.

Description: The rapid pace of change within the reinsurance sector over the past few years has given way to the permutations of a “new reality” that is being shaped by abundant capacity from traditional and alternative sources.

Description: This article focuses on the market risk benefit (MRB) measurement model and will examine a generic guaranteed minimum death benefit (GMDB) in the context of LDTI and its impact from both the ceding entity and the reinsurer standpoints.