The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a long-awaited accounting standards update Wednesday to improve the financial reporting for insurance companies that issue long-duration contracts, ...

Insurance companies must save a certain percentage of the premiums they receive to pay for claims. The amount set aside, the reserves, must be enough should a large group of policyholders experience a ...

As tort litigation and natural disaster costs increased in the United States, beginning in the early 1990s, reinsurance became more popular as a method of mitigating risks faced by insurance companies ...

For those accounting firms that embrace wealth management, the focus of their efforts, many times, is on asset management. There are a number of reasons for making investment advisory services central ...

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The International Accounting Standards Board has issued its long-awaited standard for insurance contracts after more than a dozen years, requiring a consistent treatment for all types of insurance ...