Archive

  • IFRS 17 confidence level disclosure: ultimate run-off vs one year

    16 November 2020

    Cintia Cheong explores why insurers face a tricky choice between the two different time horizons for the confidence level disclosure of the IFRS 17 risk adjustment

  • The cloud is a silver lining amid Covid-19

    16 September 2020

    Covid-19 has put to bed any doubts about the use of cloud technology for risk and capital management. The pandemic will also drive more sophisticated risk modelling, as Ronan McCaughey discusses in his review of key trends in the risk software markets

  • IFRS 17's neglected questions: the risk adjustment and confidence levels

    14 September 2020

    Andries Beukes discusses with Cintia Cheong the findings of an investigation into how insurers are planning to calculate their IFRS 17 risk adjustment and confidence level

  • IASB issues final version of IFRS 17

    25 June 2020

    The deferral of implementation to 2023 and the reinsurance accounting changes are most welcomed by insurers. Cintia Cheong reports

  • The key decisions in Samsung Life's journey to IFRS 17 implementation

    24 April 2020

    Samsung Life's Jeong Hyeok Park and Deloitte Korea's Byoung Shin tell Cintia Cheong how the insurer is implementing the new accounting regime and what they make of the recent amendments to the standard

  • Choosing KPIs for IFRS 17

    09 April 2020

    IFRS 17 is bringing a fundamental change in the accounting of re/insurance contracts for more than a thousand insurance entities around the world. Milena Lacheta and Wijdan Yousuf explain what analysts, rating agencies and auditors are thinking about measuring performance under the new standard

  • Actuarial recruitment: a pause for the pandemic

    02 April 2020

    Cintia Cheong reports on the how the actuarial job market in the UK is faring amid the coronavirus pandemic, the IR35 tax changes and the implementation of IFRS 17

  • HKFI's Selina Lau: Covid-19 is a golden opportunity to educate the public

    26 March 2020

    Selina Lau's first month as chief executive of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers has been nothing if not busy. From the coronavirus to the opportunities of the Greater Bay Area initiative, while handling IFRS 17 and forthcoming risk-based capital rules, there is never a dull moment, she tells David Walker

  • IFRS 17 in the UAE: the real issue is lack of expertise

    18 March 2020

    Oscar Kitasoboka, chief actuary at the UAE Insurance Authority, talks to Cintia Cheong about the IFRS 17 challenges facing the country's insurers in comparison to other regions

  • Is PAA the IFRS 17 shortcut insurers have been looking for?

    11 March 2020

    Complying with the IFRS 17 insurance contracts accounting standard is hard work, especially for firms writing long-term contracts. Pamela Hellig discusses the potential for the premium allocation approach to relieve the pressure