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.
Enterprise Risk Management
Issues related to ERM encompassing property/casualty, life, and health actuarial practice areas.
Solvency/Reinsurance
Domestic and international solvency, risk management, and reinsurance issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice.
Federal Insurance Regulation/Systemic Risk
Regulation of insurance by the federal government or as a systemic risk to the economy.
Financial Reporting/International Accounting
Domestic and international financial reporting issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice.
Risk Management & Financial Reporting News
The Long-Duration Contracts Work Group of the Financial Reporting Committee released an exposure draft of a public policy practice note on the Application of Accounting Standards Update 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts. The exposure draft is Part I: Traditional and Limited-Payment Contracts – Basic Considerations Related to the Liability for Future Policy Benefits. Due to the number of areas of practice impacted by this accounting standard, the white paper is being exposed for comment in sections, of which this is the first. Please send comments to rmfrcanalyst@actuary.org by September 30.
( )RMFRC’s Data Science and Analytics Committee (DSAC) submitted comments in response to a joint request for information and comment from several federal agencies regarding financial institutions’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The DSAC letter provided actuarial insights into the use of AI in the insurance sector. The agencies making the request are the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and the National Credit Union Administration.
( )The Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Work Group and the Actuaries Climate Index/Actuaries Climate Risk Index Work Group submitted comments to the New York State Department of Financial Services on financial risks related to climate change.
( )The Climate-Related Financial Disclosures Work Group and the Actuaries Climate Index/Actuaries Climate Risk Index Work Group jointly submitted comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request for public input on climate change disclosures.
( )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.
( )RISK MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL REPORTING PUBLIC STATEMENTS
Comments and letters
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.
Issue briefs
Analyses of major actuarial or public policy issues written primarily for policy-makers, regulators, the news media, and the public.
Policy papers
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.
Presentations
Slides presented by the Academy at webinars, seminars, briefings, hearings, or other meetings and events.
Reports to the NAIC
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.
Testimony
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.
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