When you become an actuary, you hear the term Solvency II a lot. It is one of the most important regulatory frameworks in the insurance industry. Designed to ensure that insurers remain solvent and can meet their obligations, Solvency II establishes risk-based capital requirements and reporting standards.
In this post, …
lifelib is an open-source Python package designed for actuarial modelling. It's a significant contribution to the actuarial community, offering one of the few — if not the only — open-source actuarial cash flow models. This makes it a valuable tool for enhancing modelling skills.
The package includes multiple libraries, one …
A positive CSM is released to the income statement over the coverage period.
What about groups of insurance contracts that are onerous, and therefore expected to be loss-making?
In this post, we will consider three cases:
In this post, let's take a look at the initial and subsequent accounting for the Contractual Service Margin (CSM). We will focus on products without direct participating features.
Let's take an example of a contract with a 3-year coverage period without any investment component.
The policyholder pays …
IFRS 17 has introduced the concept of fulfilment cash flows. Fulfilment cash flows are the building blocks of the general model.
Fulfilment cash flows consist of inflows and outflows, discounting and an explicit risk adjustment for non-financial risk. What remains after this calculation (if anything) is the CSM.
Let's take …