Darragh Kelly
Ton up Member
Hi,
Just a couple of questions from notes in relation to chapter.
1. Section 9
Is stability the same thing as consistency with regard to valuation of assets? I know consistency is cover in section 8.2 so not sure... I kinda get why it's not good practice to value a volatile assets with liabilities using a 'stable' (constant?) interest rate. But what exactly does stability mean here?
2. Section 8.1
Just struggling to think of a situation where discontinuance would occur, apart from say memebers of a pension fund contributing a percentage of their salary to the fund. Then the company providing the pension fund decides to scrap the fund. So the fund is discontinued? So they need to pay the members back their contributions and so would need to have sufficiently liquid assets to do so? Can't really think of any other situation where discontinuance valuation would be used?
3. Section 6
Just wondering what exactly 'market-consistent valuation of liabilities' means? Is it simply methods that are consistent with what the market generally does?
Thanks very much,
Darragh
Just a couple of questions from notes in relation to chapter.
1. Section 9
Is stability the same thing as consistency with regard to valuation of assets? I know consistency is cover in section 8.2 so not sure... I kinda get why it's not good practice to value a volatile assets with liabilities using a 'stable' (constant?) interest rate. But what exactly does stability mean here?
2. Section 8.1
Just struggling to think of a situation where discontinuance would occur, apart from say memebers of a pension fund contributing a percentage of their salary to the fund. Then the company providing the pension fund decides to scrap the fund. So the fund is discontinued? So they need to pay the members back their contributions and so would need to have sufficiently liquid assets to do so? Can't really think of any other situation where discontinuance valuation would be used?
3. Section 6
Just wondering what exactly 'market-consistent valuation of liabilities' means? Is it simply methods that are consistent with what the market generally does?
Thanks very much,
Darragh