Analysis and Valuation of Insurance Companies

Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US GAAP. Building on the discussion and analyses in the previous two sections, the third section addresses the valuation of insurance companies. The section starts by discussing the primary drivers of insurers’ intrinsic value, including profitability, growth prospects and cost of equity

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Basic Insurance Accounting—Selected Topics

Basic Insurance Accounting – Selected Topics Page 2 of 24 • Bulk reserve – This reserve represents the estimated deficiency in the aggregate of case reserves for known claims. If forced to assign it to either case reserves or IBNR reserves, some will assign it to