Meeting Summaries and Observer Notes

 

 

IASB October 2008

15 October 2008

The Board discussed measurement approaches that are possible candidates to be applied to insurance liabilities.

IASB September 2008

18 September 2008

The discussion paper (DP) Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts proposed three building blocks for use in measuring insurance liabilities.

IASB February 2008

19 February 2008

The staff presented: a high-level overview of responses to the discussion paper Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts. an overview of two issues identified in many of the responses:

IASB January 2008

23 January 2008

The discussion paper Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts proposed three building blocks for use in measuring insurance liabilities.

IASB November 2007

13 November 2007

The Board’s discussion paper Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts states that the project on insurance contracts will address accounting by policyholders for their rights under insurance contracts (‘policyholder accounting’).

IASB February 2007

21 February 2007

The Board discussed whether an insurer should unbundle the deposit component of an insurance contract, and reached the following tentative conclusions

IASB January 2007

25 January 2007

The Board continued its discussion of participating contracts. The Board tentatively decided that policyholder participation creates a liability if the insurer has a legal or constructive obligation to pay policyholder dividends.

IASB October 2006

16 October 2006

The Board reviewed its tentative conclusions on insurance contracts in the light of the education session led in September by representatives of the CFO Forum, the Group of North American Insurance Enterprises and four major Japanese life insurers.

IASB September 2006

18 September 2006

The summary of the project discussions at the September Meeting.

IASB July 2006

18 July 2006

The Board discussed the presentation of premiums, and unit-linked and index-linked contracts.