Project news history
A podcast has been recorded by Darrel Scott, IASB member and Andrea Pryde, Technical Principal, reporting on developments on the Insurance Contracts project at the September 2012 meeting. Listen here.
3 October 2012
Click here to see the current status of Insurance Contracts. This page has been updated to reflect the IASB�s recent tentative decisions.
3 October 2012
IASB decide on targeted re-exposure of insurance contracts proposal. Click here for the press release
28 September 2012
A working draft to implement the IASB�s tentative decisions on the Insurance Contract project has been uploaded onto the Current Status webpage. To access these documents click here.
3 July 2012
The audio recordings (and agenda papers) of the recent Insurance working group meeting held in London are now available, please click here.
29 June 2012
The Insurance working group is meeting in London on 25-26 June 2012. Agenda papers are available here.
21 June 2012
The staff have updated a summary of how and where the proposals in the exposure draft Insurance Contracts (ED) would change as a result of the IASB and FASB's tentative decisions. Click here to see how tentative decisions of the IASB are reflected in the ED.
4 April 2012
A podcast has been recorded by Darrel Scott, IASB member, Andrea Pryde, Senior Technical Manager and Rachel Knubley, Technical Principal. Click here to listen to the podcast.
28 March 2012
The staff have prepared two documents: one document which presents high level summary of project objectives (click here to see the presentation) and one document which presents high level summary of IASB and FASB�s tentative decisions, showing where those decisions would affect the proposals in the ED (click here to see the presentation).
26 March 2012
The staff have updated a document which summarises the progress on the project. Click hereto see high level summary of the current status on Insurance contracts.
26 March 2012
The staff have updated a document which summarises the progress on the project. Click hereto see high level summary of the current status on Insurance contracts.
8 March 2012
Podcast recorded by Darrel Scott, IASB member and Andrea Pryde, Senior Technical Manager, reporting on developments in the Insurance Project following the joint IASB/FASB meeting on 27 to 29 February and IASB only meeting 1 and 2 March 2012. Listen to the recording, here.
5 March 2012
The IASB and FASB agreed today to work together to seek to reduce differences in their respective classification and measurement models for financial instruments. For more information, please click here.
27 January 2012
The staff has prepared a webpage that reports on the boards' joint tentative decisions. The webpage is designed to help interested parties evaluate the impact of those decisions on the forthcoming standard. To view the page click here.
8 December 2011
Podcast recorded by Patrick Finnegan, IASB member and Joanna Yeoh, Technical Manager, reporting on developments in the Insurance Project following the IASB meeting on 15 November 2011 and joint IASB/FASB meeting on 16 November 2011. Click here to listen.
22 November 2011
The FASB plans to hold an education session on participating contracts on 22 November 2011, click hereto see more details, including registration to video webcast.
21 November 2011
Click here to see how tentative decisions of the boards are reflected in the ED.
27 October 2011
Insurance Working Group meeting, 24 October 2011. Click here to listen to the meeting recordings.
26 October 2011
The draft agenda and observer notes for the next insurance working group are available here.
11 October 2011
The next Insurance Working Group meeting will be held in London on Monday 24 October 2011. For more details, please click here.
29 September 2011
Click here to see how tentative decisions of the boards are reflected in the ED.
27 September 2011
Click here to see how tentative decisions of the boards are reflected in the ED.
30 June 2011
The staff has prepared an overview of progress since the exposure draft Insurance Contracts (ED). Click hereto see the overview.
23 June 2011
A podcast has been recorded in which Warren McGregor, IASB member, provides an overview of the insurance sessions and the decisions reached during those sessions at the joint June Board meeting.
20 June 2011
A podcast has been recorded in which Warren McGregor, IASB member, summarises tentative decisions reached and discussions held since the March joint board meeting. Click here to listen.
23 May 2011
The updated proposed project timetable (consistent with the revised timeline for completing the convergence programme) is available here.
4 May 2011
Stephen Cooper, IASB member, and Matthias Zeitler, IASB staff, have recorded a podcast in which they discuss the boards� tentative decision on the discount rate and how those decisions could be applied in the context of the so-called �top-down� approach. Click here to listen.
19 April 2011
An interview with Sir David Tweedie and Leslie Seidman regarding the timeline for completing the convergence programme, including the insurance contracts project, is available by clicking here.
15 April 2011
The next Insurance Working Group meeting will be held in London on Monday 16 May 2011. For more details, please click here.
28 March 2011
Click here to see how tentative decisions of the boards are reflected in the ED.
28 March 2011
New insurance contracts podcast available - Elke K�nig, IASB member, provides an overview of the insurance sessions and the decisions reached at the joint March board meeting. For this podcast, and others, click here.
21 March 2011
The Insurance Working Group meeting will take place on Thursday 24 March 2011. For more information and observer notes click here.
The updated proposed project timetable that will enable the IASB to finalise a standard on insurance contracts, and the FASB to finalise an exposure draft by mid 2011 is available here.
17 March 2011
The staff have prepared a summary of how the proposals in the exposure draft Insurance Contracts (ED) would change as a result of the IASB and FASB's tentative decisions. Click here to see how tentative decisions of the IASB are reflected in the ED.
9 March 2011
The proposed project timetable that will enable the IASB to finalise a standard on insurance contracts, and the FASB to finalise an exposure draft by mid 2011 is available here.
8 March 2011
The boards discussed preliminary field test results. Please click here to see the report.
2 March 2011
Since the IASB restarted phase II of the project on Insurance Contracts in mid 2004, many of the IASB discussions of this project have been in educational sessions, for more details click here.
24 February 2011
Listen to Patrick Finnegan, IASB member, summarise the discussions at the joint February Board meeting and provide background information to the tentative decisions reached by the boards. Click hereto listen.
22 February 2011
Listen to Warren McGregor, IASB member, take stock of the joint IASB/FASB project on Insurance Contracts. Click here to listen.
24 January 2011
Click here to listen to an update on the Insurance Contacts project.
10 January 2011
The audio files from the 9 December Tokyo roundtable are now available, to listen click here.
14 December 2010
The Insurance Working Group met on the 11 and 12 of November 2010, to listen the the audio files click here.
16 November 2010
Insurance Contracts round tables deadline for registration extended until 15 November, click here.
4 November 2010
Live webcast on Insurance Contracts exposure draft on 25 October, click herefor more details
21 October 2010
Investor Perspective entitled 'Making sense of Insurance contracts' published, click here
8 October 2010
The IASB and FASB plan to hold a series of public roundtable meetings in December 2010 for the insurance contracts project
17 September 2010
Live webcast on insurance contracts exposure draft on 6 August
4 August 2010
Warren McGregor, member of the IASB, in this podcast introduces the Exposure Draft Insurance Contracts providing an overview of the IASB�s proposals.
30 July 2010
The IASB today published the Exposure Draft Insurance Contracts with a 4-months comment period ending on 30 November 2010. To see the press release click here.
30 July 2010