Description: The secretary of the SOA looks back over the last five years at changes in the life insurance business and the actuarial profession.

Description: Presenters discuss the basic elements of strategic, or long-range planning and review the general state of the pension industry. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2, session 97CS of the Maui II Spring Meeting.

Description: This section provides multiple book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Many of the books reviewed deal with pensions, retirement and Social Security. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973, Vol. 25, Pt. 1, No. 72 AB.

Description: This section provides multiple book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Topics include aging, retirement and pension plans, investing, demography, mergers and acquisitions, variable annuities and other insurance and mathmatical subjects. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22, No. 1. This article explores the differences and the commonalities of UK vs US actuarial practice with an emphasis on pensions.

Description: Table accompanying the article A Guide to Surfing the New Pension Section Web Pages which provides links to various research papers and other resources offered on the Pension Section web pages

Description: This webinar will discuss and illustrate professionalism standards in an interactive case study format. The session will begin with a lightning round discussion with audience polling on professionalism topics and standards of investment practice. Participants will then work through several case studies in an investment context, each of which will have its own specific professionalism considerations. Audience polling and discussion will be included as part of each case study.

Description: This session will discuss: • What is social insurance and advantages of financing LTSS that way • Design decision points for an LTSS program • Existing examples of programs in the US and Abroad • Challenges and differences in pricing state-based LTSS financial reform.

Description: Read the October 2019 Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2019.

Description: The article notes that the “Terminology Report of the Committee on Pensions of the Society of Actuaries was initially undertaken to assist the Academy’s Principles and Practices Committee with recommendations it had been preparing. As indicated in the exposure draft of the Terminology Report distributed in March 1975, the scope of the project was subsequently broadened.” It then summarizes recent developments and recommendations.