Description: 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago. This is the abstract of the entitled paper.

Description: This article contains excerpts from a story about actuaries who participated in the 100th running of the Boston Marathon.

Description: The Internal Revenue Service issued its seminal ruling interpreting Internal Revenal Code section 7702A[c][3][B][i], commonly referred to as the Necessary Premium Test [NPT]. The purpose of the NPT is to shelter certain death benefit increases from material change status, avoiding the 7 pay test's reapplication on their account.

Description: Information technology may change the very concept on which the actuarial profession is based. The result could be the reduction of all risk categories to a category of one.” John Diebold, chairman of the Diebold Group of management consultants, told a luncheon audience at the Centennial Celebration.

Description: The Committee on Elections cordially invites any Fellow who would like your availability as a nominee for election to the Board of Governors to be drawn to our voters' attention on this year's first ballot, to write to its chairman (Julius Vogel, Senior Vice President & Chief Actuary, Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ 07101) giving a brief summary of your background and accomplishments. You should do this before May 7, 1982.

Description: This article offers an in-depth explanation of what life insurance is and how it is regulated.

Description: This article from The Actuary, November 1996, Volume 30, No. 9 highlights the new monograph. The 145-page soft cover book by David Babbel and Craig Merrill gives a practical understanding of the development and underpinnings of models used in pricing today. For both financial analysts and valuation actuaries, the monograph aims to serve as a springboard into other technical literature.

Description: An essay suggesting a health care financing system.

Description: This presentation from Session 73 of the SOA June 2005 New Orleans Health/Pension Spring Meeting discusses the emerging risks faced by Social Security, Medicare, and other public sector retirement plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2.

Description: This session 34PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting covers the recent path-breaking research investigates the reasons that females live longer than males in virtually all societies, and even across species. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 34PD.