Life insurance

• A capital management toolkit for life re/insurers

  By Luca Tres, Paul Fulcher | 15 May 2019

  With increased pressure on the industry, now is an ideal time for insurers to incorporate innovative Solvency II capital optimisation techniques into their planning.

• South Africa: Insurance licence conversion update

  By David Kirk | 14 May 2019

  The Prudential Authority has adopted a phased approach to implementing the new Insurance Act, 2017.

• Consolidation of Indian life insurance industry – to be or not to be?

  By Sanket Kawatkar, Heerak Basu | 13 May 2019

  With a strong macro-economic outlook for the Indian economy, the young population, the large emerging middle class with high savings potential and the low penetration of life insurance business, the longer term outlook for the Indian life insurance industry continues to be positive.

• Equity Release Mortgages: Regulatory and technical developments

  By Robert Bugg, Paul Fulcher | 02 May 2019

  This paper discusses equity release mortgages as an asset class for life insurers.

• Blockchain and insurance

  By José Silveiro, Ruben Nova | 23 April 2019

  This report explains blockchain technology together with some of its current uses.

• Amendments to IFRS 17 from April 2019 IASB Meeting

  By Andrew Gilchrist | 18 April 2019

  Since the publication of IFRS 17 in May 2017, the insurance industry has begun the implementation process in advance of the original effective date of 1 January 2021.

• IFRS 17 Transition Resource Group April meeting summary

  By Magnus Wilson, Thomas Bulpitt | 17 April 2019

  Milliman consultants have prepared a summary of the key points arising from the TRG meeting of 4 April 2019.

• Market Monitor UAE: Insurance industry report 2018

  By Safder Jaffer, Asad Irshad | 17 April 2019

  The UAE insurance market continued its trend of an overall increase in profitability despite minimal premium growth in 2018.

• Observations on Emergence of Earnings under US GAAP Targeted Improvements

  By François Dauphin, William C. Hines | 01 April 2019

  This paper illustrates the potential impacts of Accounting Standards Update 2018-12, Targeted Improvements for Long-Duration Contracts relative to current US GAAP accounting with respect to four blocks of business: level term insurance, single premium immediate annuities, long-term care insurance and universal life insurance.

• Amendments to IFRS 17 from March 2019 IASB Meeting

  By Rik van Beers, Andrew Gilchrist, Laura Hobern, Andrew Kay, Thomas Bulpitt | 25 March 2019

  Milliman consultants have produced a summary of the March IASB meeting and the tentative amendments approved by the Board.

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