The preliminary views of the Steering Committee in its Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) indicate that there has been significant disagreement within the Steering Committee as to whether to reflect expected investment margins in estimates of future cash flows related to the valuation of...

The IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) mentions in a number of places the concept of market expectations regarding the expected value and corresponding adjustments for risk associated with the experience factors used in measuring the value of the liabilities of insurance contracts....

Three elements mentioned in paragraphs 191 and 192 of the IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) provide an appropriate framework to examine the issue of the determination of the proper period over which the liability of an insurance contract (this does not apply to the liability for...

As mentioned in our response to sub-issue 7H of the IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper), the IAA agrees with the IASC Insurance Steering Committees tentative view as given in paragraph 357 that equalization provisions should not be recognized as a liability...

Sub-issue 11I of the IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) discusses whether the credit standing of the insurer should affect the measurement of its insurance liabilities. The following summarizes the major arguments (including significant counter-arguments) concerning this issue in a...

The proposals for determination of fair values of insurance contracts will require the application of sophisticated mathematical, statistical and modeling techniques.

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Under a guaranteed annuity option, an insurer guarantees to convert a policyholder`s accumulated funds to a life annuity at a fixed rate when the policy matures. If the annuity rates provided under the guarantee are more beneficial to the policyholder than the prevailing rates in the market the...

This paper proposes a consistent approach to discrete time valuation in insurance and finance. This approach uses the growth optimal portfolio as references unit or benchmark. When used as benchmark, it is shown that all benchmarked price processes are supermartingales.

The paper derives many existing risk measures and premium principles by minimizing a Markow bound for the tail probability. Our approach involves two exogenous functions v(S) and ... Minimizing a general Markow bound leads to the following unifying equation. [Marc J. Goovaerts, Rob Kaas, Jan...