Life insurance

09 December 2016

The combined power of cloud computing and advanced data analytics is being harnessed to help insurers hone their modelling skills to better manage risk, cut costs and improve efficiencies.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  22 November 2016

The sudden reduction in interest rates in India can be expected to have an adverse impact on life insurance companies operating in the market.

By Philip Jackson  |  02 November 2016

Philip Jackson, Milliman Mumbai, presented at the Investec Life Insurance Conference 2016.

By Iwan Juwono, Chihong An, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Richard W. Holloway, Sojung Lee, Wing F. Wong  |  03 October 2016

This report compares and contrasts the various different approaches taken to embedded value reporting across Asian markets and insurers.

By Jeffrey A. Courchene, Mark R. Shapland  |  22 August 2016

This paper develops and examines a framework for reserve distribution testing and validation and demonstrates its use with real datasets within an enterprise risk management framework.

By Ernst Visser, Kurt Lambrechts, William C. Hines  |  28 July 2016

This note, an update of the January 2016 briefing note, discusses the board’s decisions regarding amendments in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 4 Insurance Contracts.

By Michael Daly, Sing Yee Yeoh  |  12 July 2016

This e-Alert compares the key changes proposed in the Risk Based Capital 2 (RBC 2) framework with the existing RBC framework and explains what these changes, if adopted, may mean for the Thai life insurance industry.

By Iwan Juwono, Halim Gunawan, Richard W. Holloway  |  10 February 2016

Developments in the Indonesian life insurance industry for 1 September 2015 to 31 December 2015.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  29 January 2016

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has released a number of new regulations and draft (proposed) regulations after the passage of the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act 2015.

By Ernst Visser, William C. Hines  |  28 January 2016

This briefing note discusses transition issues due to the different effective dates of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 Financial Instruments and the forthcoming new IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts. The brief also examines the proposed amendments to address these transition issues.

By Iwan Juwono, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Richard W. Holloway, Wing F. Wong  |  18 December 2015

This report supplements the full year embedded value report for Asia (excluding Japan), which was released in September, and provides a summary of the published half-year 2015 embedded value results for Asian insurers.

By Sam Morgan, Wilson Tian, Sharon Huang, Wing F. Wong  |  14 December 2015

This report focuses on life insurance and covers the China Risk Oriented Solvency System’s (C-ROSS) three-pillar structure, quantitative field testing results, international standards, and observations and potential issues around the new regime.

By Iwan Juwono, Richard W. Holloway  |  30 September 2015

Developments in the Indonesian life insurance industry for 1 May 2015 to 31 August 2015.

By Iwan Juwono, Chihong An, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Richard W. Holloway, Sojung Lee, Wing F. Wong  |  03 September 2015

This report compares and contrasts embedded value (EV) reporting across Asian (excluding Japanese) markets and insurers.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  08 April 2015

New draft regulations on Corporate Agents were introduced in March.

By Ashleigh Hickey, Fred Vosvenieks  |  05 February 2015

In this research report, we demonstrate the application of causal techniques on operational risk with reference to a case study firm in the Asian insurance market.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  02 January 2015

The Government of India has taken a major step towards passing the Insurance Laws Bill of 2014.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  19 November 2014

Even with new regulation a year ago, the growth of new participating products in India has continued to outpace other product lines. See the results of a survey of Appointed Actuaries in India on the progress being made.

By Sharon Huang, Wilson Tian, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Wing F. Wong  |  13 August 2014

Consultation papers released as China moves to risk-based capital regime.

By Neha Deva Dutt, Richard W. Holloway, Wen Yee Lee  |  09 April 2014

An overview of proposed changes to Singapore's risk-based capital framework.