Risk Management and Financial Reporting
The Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council (RMFRC) provides objective technical expertise to policymakers and regulators on issues involving risk management and/or financial reporting.

Issues related to ERM encompassing property/casualty, life, and health actuarial practice areas.

Domestic and international solvency, risk management, and reinsurance issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice.

Regulation of insurance by the federal government or as a systemic risk to the economy.

Domestic and international financial reporting issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice.
Risk Management & Financial Reporting News
The ERM/ORSA Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Work Group submitted comments to the NAIC Climate and Resilience (EX) Task Force's Climate Risk Disclosure Workstream related to ongoing discussions and work on the Climate Risk Disclosure Survey.
( )The ERM/ORSA Climate Risk Disclosures Work Group Chair, Michelle Young, and Academy Assistant Director for Research, Steve Jackson, shared an update to the NAIC Climate Risk and Resiliency (EX) Task Force on the Climate Risk Disclosures Survey Analysis project.
( )The Solvency Committee submitted comments to the Federal Insurance Office regarding its Study on the Insurance Capital Standard (ICS).
( )The ERM/ORSA Committee's Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (CRFD) Work Group submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on its Application Paper on the Supervision of Climate-related Risks in the Insurance Sector.
( )Academy volunteers presented at the National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Annual Meeting during the Special Committee on Race in Insurance Underwriting’s session. Dorothy Andrews, chairperson of the Data Science and Analytics Committee, presented on behalf of the committee and provided an update on its ongoing work relevant to NCOIL’s examination of these issues. Casualty Vice President Lauren Cavanaugh presented on behalf of the Casualty Practice Council, and Mary Bahna-Nolan presented on the issue from a life perspective.
( )The Financial Reporting Committee and Life Financial Reporting Committee submitted comments to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) regarding indexing and modco embedded derivatives.
( )The Financial Reporting Committee submitted comments to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) regarding Long-Duration Contracts Implementation Issue 11AC (ceded reinsurance), to be included in the Audit and Accounting Guide: Life and Health Insurance Entities.
( )Steve Jackson, Academy Assistant Director for Research, shared an update on the Scalars Project to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) International Insurance Relations (G) Committee.
( )The Financial Reporting Committee submitted comments to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) regarding draft revisions to the Audit and Accounting Guide: Life and Health Insurance Entities.
( )The ERM/ORSA Committee submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors' (IAIS) Issues Paper on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures ("TCFD Recommendations").
( )The Solvency Committee submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) regarding IAIS's Draft Application Paper on Liquidity Risk Management.
( )The Financial Reporting Committee sent a letter to the International Accounting Standards Board regarding the exposed amendments to International Financial Reporting Standard 17.
( )The CECL Work Group released a white paper on estimating the uncollectible reinsurance reserve for P&C companies.
( )The Academy presented a seminar on Predictive Modeling for regulators attending the NAIC's Insurance Summit in Kansas City.
( )The ERM/ORSA Committee submitted a comment letter to the Actuarial Standards Board on December 2018 exposure draft of ASOP No. 22, Statements of Actuarial Opinion Based on Asset Adequacy Analysis for Life or Health Liabilities.
( )RISK MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL REPORTING PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Comments, analysis, or explanatory material prepared for an external audience on behalf of an Academy group or the Academy as a whole; these include letters, memos, reports, and fact sheets.
Analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public.
Include white papers and monographs which are longer, more detailed analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public. Includes monographs and white papers.
Slides presented by the Academy at webinars, seminars, briefings, hearings, or other meetings and events.
The Academy works with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on the creation and refinement of sensible, effective regulation. These reports and related documents highlight the NAIC-related work of the risk management & financial reporting practice councils.
Written and oral testimony provided to Congress or to other governmental and quasigovernmental bodies.
Practice Notes
Practice notes offer examples of current and emerging approaches to selected actuarial tasks. They are intended to supplement the available actuarial literature, especially where the practices addressed are subject to evolving technology, recently adopted external requirements, or advances in actuarial science and other applicable disciplines.