The Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities

This book explores theoretical and practical implications of reflecting the fair value of liabilities for insurance companies. In addition, the contributions discuss the disclosure of these values to the financial and regulatory communities and auditing f

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The New York University Salomon Center Series on Financial Markets and Institutions VOLUME 1

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

THE FAIR VALUE OF INSURANCE LIABILITIES

Edited by

IRWIN T. VANDERHOOF and EDWARD I. ALTMAN Stern School of Business New York University

STERN• Leonard N. Stem School of Business

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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

ISBN 978-1-4419-5178-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-6732-2

ISBN 978-1-4757-6732-2 (eBook)

Printed an acid-free paper

Ali Rights Reserved © 1998 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1998 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

Table of contents Introduction Irwin T. Vanderhoof .

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Welcome Frederick D.S. Choi 1.

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Background on fair value accounting of insurance company assets and liabilities Robert C. Wilkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Comparison of methods for fair-value life insurance liabilities Arnold A. Dicke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Fair valuation of life insurance company liabilities Douglas C. Doll et a/. . . . . . . . . . .

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Discussion David F. Babbel

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Experience in implementing fair value of insurance liabilities Dennis L. Carr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Discussion J. Peter Duran . . . Joseph E. Crowne . .

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Allowing for asset, liability, and business risk in the valuation of a life company Shyam J.B. Mehta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Discussion 6.

Phelim Boyle

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A market-value accounting framework for insurance companies Mark Griffin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Discussion 7.

Joan Lamm-Tennant .

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Option adjusted value of the firm David N. Becker . . . . . .

215

Discussion

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Kim Staking

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Table of contents The cash flow method for valuing liabilities in Canada Allan Brender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The derivation and application of accounting standards to the market value of liabilities Christopher D. O'Brien . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The indexed discount rate method for fair valuation of liabilities S. Michael McLaughlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Is Paul vs. Virginia dead? Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski

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Remarks Joan Lamm-Tennant .

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List of contributors

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Index

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IRWIN T. VANDERHOOF New York University

Introduction: fair value of insurance liabilities

The formal papers in this volume are responses to a call for papers on the subject of 'market' value of insurance liabilities sponsored by the Society of Actuaries. 'Fair value' and 'market value' are viewed as equivalent ideas by FASB. The discussions