CHUBB Arabia Cooperative Insurance Company (“the Company”) is a Saudi Joint Stock Company registered on 28 Rajab 1430H (corresponding to 21 July 2009) under commercial registration number 2050066029 which was later amended to 2051043431 dated 9 Sha’aban 1431H (corresponding to 21 July 2010), issued in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Company has been licensed to conduct cooperative insurance business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under cooperative principles in accordance with Royal Decree number 60/M dated 18 Ramadan 1427H (corresponding to 11 October 2006), pursuant to Council of Ministers resolution number 233 dated 16 Ramadan 1427H (corresponding to 9 October 2006).

The activities of the Company are to transact cooperative insurance operations and all related activities in accordance with the Law on Supervision of Cooperative Insurance Companies and its implementing regulations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On 21 Dhul-Hijjah, 1430H (corresponding to 8 December 2009), the Company received the license from Saudi Central Bank (“SAMA”) to transact insurance business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Surplus from insurance operations is distributed in accordance with the Implementing Regulations issued by SAMA, whereby the shareholders of the Company are to receive 90% of the annual surplus from insurance operations and the policyholders are to receive the remaining 10%. Any deficit arising on insurance operations is transferred to the shareholders’ operations in full.

1. Basis of presentation

The interim condensed financial statements of the Company as at and for the period ended 30 June 2021 have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34 Interim Financial Reporting (“IAS 34”) that is endorsed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other standards and pronouncements issued by the Saudi Organization for Chartered and Professional Accountants (“SOCPA”).

The Company’s statement of interim condensed financial position is not presented using a current/non-current classification. However, the following balances would generally be classified as non-current: available for sale investments, right-of-use assets, property and equipment, intangible asset, goodwill, statutory deposit, accrued income on statutory deposit, provision for end-of-service indemnities, lease liabilities, certain engineering related unearned premiums, reinsurance share of unearned premiums, reinsurance unearned commission, deferred policy acquisition cost and accrued commission income payable to SAMA. All other financial statement line items would generally be classified as current unless, stated otherwise.

As required by the Saudi Arabian Insurance Regulations, the Company maintains separate books of accounts for Insurance Operations and Shareholders’ Operations and presents the financial information accordingly. Assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses clearly attributable to either activity are recorded in the respective accounts. The basis of allocation of expenses from joint operations is determined and approved by the management and the Board of Directors.

The interim condensed statement of financial position, interim condensed statements of income, comprehensive income and cash flows of the insurance operations and shareholders’ operations which are presented in note 21 of the financial statements have been provided only as supplementary financial information and to comply with the requirements of the guidelines issued by SAMA implementing regulations. SAMA implementing regulations require the clear segregation of the assets, liabilities, income and expenses of the insurance operations and the shareholders’ operations. Accordingly, the interim condensed statements of financial position, statements of income, comprehensive income and cash flows prepared for the insurance operations and shareholders operations as referred to above, reflect only the assets, liabilities, income, expenses and comprehensive gains or losses of the respective operations.

In preparing the Company-level financial statements in compliance with IFRS, the balances and transactions of the insurance operations are amalgamated and combined with those of the shareholders’ operations. Interoperation balances, transactions and unrealised gains or losses, if any, are eliminated in full during amalgamation. The accounting policies adopted for the insurance operations and shareholders’ operations are uniform for like transactions and events in similar circumstances.

The interim condensed financial statements do not include all of the information required for full annual financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the annual financial statements as of and for the year ended 31 December 2020.

Amounts in this interim condensed financial statements are expressed in Saudi Arabian Riyals (“SR”) unless otherwise stated.

2. Seasonality of operations

There are no seasonal changes that might affect insurance operations of the Company.

SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The significant accounting and risk management policies, estimates and assumptions used in the preparation of these interim condensed financial statements are consistent with those used in the preparation of the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020.

4.1 Standards issued but not yet effective

The Company has chosen not to early adopt the following new standards which have been issued but not yet effective for the Company's accounting year beginning on January 1, 2021 and is currently assessing their impact:

1. IFRS 9 Financial Instruments

This standard was published on 24 July 2014 to replace IAS 39. The new standard addresses the following items related to financial instruments:

Classification and measurement

IFRS 9 uses a single approach to determine whether a financial asset is measured at amortized cost, fair value through other comprehensive income or fair value through profit or loss. A financial asset is measured at amortized cost if both:

1. the asset is held within a business model whose objective is to hold assets in order to collect contractual cash flows and;

2. the contractual terms of the financial asset give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding (“SPPI”).

The financial asset is measured at fair value through other comprehensive income and realized gains or losses would be recycled through interim condensed statement of income upon sale, if both conditions are met:

1. the asset is held within a business model whose objective is to hold assets in order to collect contractual cash flows and for sale and;

2. the contractual terms of cash flows are SPPI.

Assets not meeting either of these categories are measured at fair value through interim condensed statement of income. Additionally, at initial recognition, an entity can use the option to designate a financial asset at fair value through statement of income if doing so eliminates or significantly reduces an accounting mismatch. For equity instruments that are not held for trading, an entity can also make an irrevocable election to present in other comprehensive income subsequent changes in the fair value of the instruments (including realized gains and losses), dividends being recognized in interim condensed statement of income.

Additionally, for financial liabilities that are designated as at fair value through interim condensed statement of income, the amount of change in the fair value of the financial liability that is attributable to changes in the credit risk of that liability is recognized in other comprehensive income, unless the recognition of the effects of changes in the liability’s credit risk in other comprehensive income would create or enlarge an accounting mismatch in interim condensed statement of income.

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4.1 Standards issued but not yet effective (continued)

1. IFRS 9 Financial Instruments (continued)

Impairment

The impairment model under IFRS 9 reflects expected credit losses, as opposed to incurred credit losses under IAS 39. Under the IFRS 9 approach, it is no longer necessary for a credit event to have occurred before credit losses are recognized. Instead, an entity always accounts for expected credit losses and changes in those expected credit losses. The amount of expected credit losses is updated at each reporting date to reflect changes in credit risk since initial recognition.

Hedge accounting

IFRS 9 introduces new requirements for hedge accounting that align hedge accounting more closely with Risk Management. The requirements establish a more principles-based approach to the general hedge accounting model. The amendments apply to all hedge accounting with the exception of portfolio fair value hedges of interest rate risk (commonly referred to as “fair value macro hedges”). For these, an entity may continue to apply the hedge accounting requirements currently in IAS 39. This exception was granted largely because the IASB is addressing macro hedge accounting as a separate project.

Effective date

The published effective date of IFRS 9 was 1 January 2018. However, amendments to IFRS 4 – Insurance Contracts: Applying IFRS 9 – Financial Instruments with IFRS 4 – Insurance Contracts, published on 12 September 2016, changes the existing IFRS 4 to allow entities issuing insurance contracts within the scope of IFRS 4 to mitigate certain effects of applying IFRS 9 before the IASB’s new insurance contract standard (IFRS 17 – Insurance Contracts) becomes effective. The amendments introduce two alternative options:

1. apply a temporary exemption from implementing IFRS 9 until the earlier of:

1. the effective date of a new insurance contract standard; or

2. annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2023. On 17 March 2020, the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) decided to extend the effective date of IFRS 17 and the IFRS 9 temporary exemption in IFRS 4 from 1 January 2021 to 1 January 2023. Additional disclosures related to financial assets are required during the deferral period. This option is only available to entities whose activities are predominately connected with insurance and have not applied IFRS 9 previously; or;

2. adopt IFRS 9 but, for designated financial assets, remove from interim condensed statement of income the effects of some of the accounting mismatches that may occur before the new insurance contract standard is implemented. During the interim period, additional disclosures are required.

The company is eligible and has chosen to apply temporary exemption under IFRS 9.

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1. IFRS 9 Financial Instruments (continued)

The Company has performed a detailed assessment beginning January 1, 2018: (1) The carrying amount of the Company’s liabilities arising from contracts within the scope of IFRS 4 (including deposit components or embedded derivatives unbundled from insurance contracts) were compared to the total carrying amount of all its liabilities; and (2) the total carrying amount of the company’s liabilities connected with insurance were compared to the total carrying amount of all its liabilities. The Company’s total liabilities were SAR 409.8 million and liabilities connected with insurance in the statement of financial position primarily included the liabilities arising in the course of writing insurance business and were valued at SAR 327.9 million. Based on these assessments the Company determined that it is eligible for the temporary exemption. Consequently, the Company has decided to defer the implementation of IFRS 9 until the effective date of the new insurance contracts standard. Disclosures related to financial assets required during the deferral period are included in the Company’s financial statements.

As at 30 June 2021, the Company has total financial assets and insurance related assets amounting to SAR 575.4 million (31 December 2020: SAR 575.8 million) and SAR 301.9 million (31 December 2020: SAR 312.3 million), respectively. Currently, financial assets held at amortized cost consist of loans and receivable (cash and cash equivalents, terms deposit, premiums and reinsurance balances receivable and certain other receivables) amounting to SAR 472.3 million (31 December 2020: SAR 472.2 million). Financial assets held at amortized cost are expected to meet the SPPI test as required by IFRS 9 and the Company expects to measure such assets at amortized cost. Financial assets consist of available for sale investment amounting to SAR 1.9 million (31 December 2020: SAR 1.9 million), the Company expect to use the FVOCI classification of financial assets based on the business model of the Company for these strategic nature of equity investments.

The Company’s financial assets have low credit risk as at 30 June 2021 and 31 December 2020. The above is based on high-level impact assessment of IFRS 9. This preliminary assessment is based on currently available information and may be subject to changes arising from further detailed analyses or additional reasonable and supportable information being made available to the Company in the future. Overall, the Company expects some effect of applying the impairment requirements of IFRS 9: However, the impact of the same is not expected to be significant.

At present it is not possible to provide reasonable estimate of the effects of application of this new standard as the Company is yet to perform a detailed review.

2. IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts

Overview

This standard was published on 18 May 2017, it establishes the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of insurance contracts and supersedes IFRS 4 – Insurance contracts.

The new standard applies to insurance contracts issued, to all reinsurance contracts and to investment contracts with discretionary participating features provided the entity also issues insurance contracts. It requires to separate the following components from insurance contracts:

1. embedded derivatives, if they meet certain specified criteria;

2. distinct investment components; and

3. any promise to transfer distinct goods or non-insurance services.

These components should be accounted for separately in accordance with the related standards (IFRS 9 and IFRS 15).

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ii) IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts (continued)

Measurement

In contrast to the requirements in IFRS 4, which permitted insurers to continue to use the accounting policies for measurement purposes that existed prior to January 2015, IFRS 17 provides the following different measurement models:

The General Measurement Model (GMM) is based on the following “building blocks”:

2. 1. 1. the fulfilment cash flows (FCF), which comprise:

• probability-weighted estimates of future cash flows,

• an adjustment to reflect the time value of money (i.e. discounting) and the financial risks associated with

those future cash flows,

• and a risk adjustment for non-financial risk;

2. 1. 2. the Contractual Service Margin (CSM). The CSM represents the unearned profit for a group of insurance contracts and will be recognized as the entity provides services in the future. The CSM cannot be negative at inception; any net negative amount of the fulfilment cash flows at inception will be recorded in profit or loss immediately.

At the end of each subsequent reporting period the carrying amount of a group of insurance contracts is remeasured to be the sum of:

• the liability for remaining coverage, which comprises the FCF related to future services and the CSM of the group at that date; and

• the liability for incurred claims, which is measured as the FCF related to past services allocated to the group at that date.

The CSM is adjusted subsequently for changes in cash flows related to future services but the CSM cannot be negative, so changes in future cash flows that are greater than the remaining CSM are recognized in interim condensed statement of income.

Interest is also accreted on the CSM at rates locked in at initial recognition of a contract (i.e. discount rate used at inception to determine the present value of the estimated cash flows). Moreover, the CSM will be released into interim condensed statement of income based on coverage units, reflecting the quantity of the benefits provided and the expected coverage duration of the remaining contracts in the group.

The Variable Fee Approach (VFA) is a mandatory model for measuring contracts with direct participation features (also referred to as ‘direct participating contracts’). This assessment of whether the contract meets these criteria is made at inception of the contract and not reassessed subsequently. For these contracts, the CSM is also adjusted for in addition to adjustment under general model;

1. the entity’s share of the changes in the fair value of underlying items;

2. the effect of changes in the time value of money and in financial risks not relating to the underlying items.

In addition, a simplified Premium Allocation Approach (PAA) is permitted for the measurement of the liability for remaining coverage if it provides a measurement that is not materially different from the General Measurement Model for the group of contracts or if the coverage period for each contract in the group is one year or less. With the PAA, the liability for remaining coverage corresponds to premiums received at initial recognition less insurance acquisition cash flows. The General Measurement Model remains applicable for the measurement of the liability for incurred claims. However, the entity is not required to adjust future cash flows for the time value of money and the effect of financial risk if those cash flows are expected to be paid/received in one year or less from the date the claims are incurred.

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2. IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts (continued)

Effective date

The effective date of IFRS 17 is currently 1 January 2023 and will supersede IFRS 4 “Insurance Contracts”. Earlier adoption is permitted if both IFRS 15 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” and IFRS 9 “Financial Instruments” have also been applied. The Company expects a material impact on measurement and disclosure of insurance and reinsurance that will affect both the interim condensed statement of income and the interim condensed statement of financial position. The Company has decided not to early adopt this new standard.

Transition

Retrospective application is required. However, if full retrospective application for a group of insurance contracts is impracticable, then the entity is required to choose either a modified retrospective approach or a fair value approach.

Impact assessment:

Presentation and Disclosures

The Company expects that the new standard will result in a change to the accounting policies for insurance contracts together with amendments to presentation and disclosures.

Impact

The Company has performed an operational gap assessment which has focused on the impact of IFRS 17 across data, systems, processes and people. The Company is currently assessing the impact of the application and implementation of IFRS 17. As of the date of the publication of these financial statements, the financial impact of adopting the standard has yet to be fully assessed by the Company.

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3. IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts (continued)

The Company has started with a detailed data gap assessment as well as the development of an implementation plan which considers the key IFRS 17 design principles. In addition, the Company has set up an IFRS 17 Steering Committee.

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Deposits are placed with local banks with original maturities of less than three-months and earn financial income at rates ranging from 0.66% to 1.01% per annum (31 December 2020: 0.65% to 1.15% per annum). Bank balances are placed with counterparties with sound credit ratings.

1. Investments held for trading:

a) Category wise analysis is as follows:

Movement in the investment held for trading balance is as follows

The Company entered into a purchase agreement whereby it has purchased the insurance business operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of Ace Arabia Insurance Company BSC and International Insurance Company BSC. The purchase price was based on a valuation study conducted in accordance with the due diligence and valuation guidelines issued by SAMA and the value of goodwill was estimated at SR 43.77 million.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AND BALANCES

Related parties represent shareholders, companies related to shareholders (“affiliates”) and key management personnel and the entities controlled, jointly controlled or significantly influenced by such parties. Pricing policies and terms of these transactions are approved by the Company’s management and Board of Directors. The following are the details of major related parties’ transactions during the period and the related balances at the end of the period:

The following are the details of related parties balances as at:

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Remuneration and compensation of BOD Members and Executives

Key management personnel of the Company includes all directors, executive and non–executive, and senior management. The following table shows the salaries, remuneration and allowances obtained by the Board members and key management personnel for the period ended 30 June 2021 and 2020: