Description: Interview with new incoming Chair of the Reinsurance Section

Description: This is a perspective of the upcoming year from the view of the Chair of the Council of the TaxationSection. Following the challenges from the past year and since the arrival of the pandemic, I discussed how we will adapt to this new virtual or hybrid world and how the Taxation Section will continue to offer material to its members.

Description: There are four generations in the workplace today and each are different from one another. How do we recognize these differences, account for them in our daily interactions and adjust our expectations appropriately? This can make an impact on team effectiveness, employee recruitment, engagement, and retention within organizations. During this webcast, the presenter will explore how these generations can work together and learn from one another.

Description: Ensuring employees retire with adequate benefits is an ever-growing challenge. During this webcast, we will highlight key insights from the fields of behavioral economics and data analytics that can be utilized to better equip employees for retirement. Areas of focus will include inherent biases that people exhibit and how employers can use these biases to design plan features that will nudge their employees towards making better decisions for their futures.

Description: The February 2023 SOA Research Institute's Virtual Open House focused on the Aging & Retirement Strategic Research Program. This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of what was presented.

Description: With increasing demand for quality new-hires, it is increasingly important to hire the most impactful employees. Actuaries who think creatively can have a disproportionately positive effect on their employers. In this article, we discuss how to identify this type of person during the interview process.

Description: This report presents the results of the work undertaken in response to a SIPF commissioned research project in July 2012, entitled Communicating the Financial Health ofPublic Pension Plans.

Description: The underlying premise of this paper is that enterprise risk management (ERM), as it continues to evolve as both a process and a collection of risk management techniques, can benefit from several different (but ultimately somewhat related) “megatrends.” The core of this paper concentrates on the impact on ERM of one of those megatrends: the emergence of a behavioral economics perspective, which is beginning to have a large impact on our understanding of the economy and on certain economic and business processes. The evolution and context of behavioral economics are described, and potential implications for the practice of ERM are discussed. The paper culminates with a variety of specific suggestions for ERM practice in response to findings from behavioral economics research, specifically a number of human cognitive dissonances inconsistent with traditional economic theory.

Description: Book review of A Whack on the Side of the Head, which has lots of ideas for thinking creatively.