Description: Key excerpts from research recently performed by Milliman consultants for the SOA on the impact of VM-20 on life insurance product development.

Description: This article examines the impact of a changing smoking rate on population-level mortality improvement and the importance of taking this driver into account.

Description: Enterprise Risk Management incorporates integrated risk management due to the fact that the majority of company failures result from multiple correlated causes. Sites findings from Mercer study

Description: This is a final report to help individual health plans evaluate and manage their potential exposure during a specific pandemic. It examines the potential impact of pandemic influenza on different payers in the U.S. health care system.

Description: In this discussion of President Obama’s financial regulatory reform on start-up companies, the author believes”that the proposed requirement has the potential to significantly increase the financial burden on an early-stage firm through increased scrutiny and record-keeping” This paper outlines the extent of the issues facing a start-up company due to the Administration's proposals, and offers solutions to the problems facing these entrepreneurs.

Description: Haven’t we all been watching for the next big financing transaction and wondering whether it will be done by a reinsurer or an insurer? Also will it support XXX reserve redundancies or will the market have finally “cracked the code” for the financing of AXXX reserves?

Description: Attempts to Quantify Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Description: Panel discussion on inflation's impact on business procedures, contingency plans, long-term benefit levels, and determination of financial reporting items such as future reserves, surplus levels, operating expenses, and net gains. Presented at the Spring 1975 Meeting in Los Angeles.

Description: Asia is experiencing changing demographic, social, and cultural tides which threaten to submerge existing retirement-pension systems.

Description: This paper is a review of H R 10 establishing tax deferred retirement plans - Keogh Plans- for the self employed.