Life insurance

By Alex Bryant, Richard W. Holloway, Paul Sinnott, Michael Daly, Wing F. Wong, Chihong An, Stephen H. Conwill, Farzana Ismail, David Kong, Jia Hui Neo, Philip Jackson  |  09 June 2017

This report provides a comprehensive overview of participating insurance products in the Asian markets looked at through three lenses: a regional view, a brief analysis by country and a detailed country report.

By Caoimhe Fahy, Bridget MacDonnell, Eoin King  |  25 May 2017

The second Milliman Evening Briefing took place on 24 May 2017. The theme of the evening briefing was “Hot Topics”.

By David Plumb, Robert Eaton  |  03 May 2017

Both insurance carriers and regulators are generally in agreement that long-term care insurers should not be able to recoup past losses through premium rate increases.

By Matt Winegar, Jeff Anderson  |  01 May 2017

If Alzheimer’s disease were curable—both preventable and reversible—what would happen to the long-term care industry?

By Iwan Juwono, Halim Gunawan, Richard W. Holloway  |  17 October 2016

Developments in the Indonesian life insurance industry for 1 May 2016 to 31 August 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 Richard See Toh, Philip Simpson, Stuart Reynolds, Tatiana Egoshina  |  14 September 2016

This publication focuses on embedded value results at year-end 2015, including an overview of methodologies companies used, comments on developments and a range of current hot topics.

By Richard See Toh, Kenjiro Ito, Philip Simpson, Stephen H. Conwill, Stuart Reynolds, Takahiro Kinoshita, Takanori Hoshino, Tatiana Egoshina  |  18 December 2015

This mid-year publication provides an update on the embedded value reporting for European insurance companies that have published interim embedded value results in 2015.

By Bridget MacDonnell, Andrew Kay, Mike Claffey  |  07 August 2015

The standard formula is expected to be appropriate for many companies, but the work in carrying out this assessment should not be underestimated.

By Richard See Toh, Philip Simpson, Stuart Reynolds, Tatiana Egoshina  |  05 August 2015

This paper focuses on embedded value (EV) results at year-end 2014, including an overview of the methodologies companies used and a discussion of current hot topics in EV.

By Donna McEneaney, Michael Leitschkis  |  19 June 2015

This briefing note discusses the proposed accounting standard for insurance contracts “IFRS 4 Phase II” and how insurance companies’ opening balance sheets will change at the transition date.

By Donna McEneaney, Ernst Visser  |  10 June 2015

A comparison of the proposed accounting standard for insurance contracts, IFRS 4 Phase II, with Solvency II and MCEV.

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 Bridget MacDonnell, Mike Claffey  |  25 September 2014

In 2013, there was life insurance premium income of €30 billion and total assets of €167 billion.

By Richard See Toh, Philip Simpson, Stuart Reynolds, Tatiana Egoshina  |  03 July 2014

EV results take cues from improved financial landscape and developing Solvency II guidance.

By Alexander Ofutin, Kurt Lambrechts  |  09 April 2014

This market update gives a summary of feedback received by the IASB on its 2013 exposure draft regarding insurance contracts and recent discussions by the board.

By Bridget MacDonnell, Mike Claffey  |  11 March 2014

Milliman analysis of life assurance business from the Insurance Statistical Review 2012.

By Karl Murray, Michael Leitschkis, Eamonn Phelan,  |  06 November 2013

This proxy modeling technique is well suited for variable annuity business.

By Emma McWilliam, Kenjiro Ito, Richard See Toh, Philip Simpson, Stephen H. Conwill, Stuart Reynolds, Takahiro Kinoshita, Takanori Hoshino  |  15 October 2013

Disclosed EV results suggest growing consumer confidence in the European market.

By Eoin O'Byrne, Lyndsay Wrobel, Russell Ward  |  14 October 2013

New proposals from the Prudential Regulation Authority aim to help insurance companies monitor required capital.