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 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.
( )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.
( )The Model Risk Management Work Group released a practice note on model risk management.
( )The Financial Regulatory Reform Task Force submitted a comment letter to the Financial Stability Oversight Council regarding the Council’s proposed guidance on nonbank financial company determinations.
( )The ERM/ORSA Committee submitted a comment letter to the Actuarial Standards Board on the fourth exposure draft of a proposed new actuarial standard of practice for modeling.
( )The IFRS 17 Work Group submitted comments to the IAA on the exposure draft of IAN 100 on Application of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts.
( )The Academy published a new Essential Elements paper, Big Data, Big Changes for Insurance and Pensions, highlighting the opportunities and challenges that rapidly evolving advancements in data analysis and storage pose for insurers, consumers, and regulators. Essential Elements is a series designed to make actuarial analyses of public policy issues clearer to general audiences.
The Solvency Committee submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on the Risk-based Global Insurance Capital Standard Version 2.0 (ICS 2.0) public consultation document dated July 31, 2018.
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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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