Archive

• FASB/IASB inconsistencies pose risks to insurers

  12 December 2013

  Moody's warns of high implementation costs and poor understanding of new accounting standards

• Adopting the new insurance IFRS

  20 November 2013

  There is enough clarity about the final form of the new accounting standard for insurance contracts for firms to begin their transition. Francesco Nagari outlines the tasks required - and warns of the heavy workload ahead

• MetLife, Manulife say accounting proposals bring "unwarranted volatility"

  24 October 2013

  US life firms respond to the IASB's third exposure draft

• Regulation: a billion-dollar problem that needs a strategic solution

  06 September 2013

  The wave of post-crisis regulation has already cost insurers billions and the industry should act to avoid worsening the impact on the bottom line. Better coordination, scenario planning and implementation frameworks are needed, say Francesco Nagari and Seb Cohen

• Insurers face "biggest ever" financial reporting change

  21 June 2013

  Third draft of international standard on insurer accounting released

• Maintaining the momentum on Solvency II

  28 December 2012

  Keeping SII moving will be just one of Insurance Europe's tasks for 2013, says Michaela Koller