Description: Read the October 2017 issue of Taxing Times published by the Taxation Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: The article summarizes and comments on a recent IRS Chief Counsel Advice that addressed how the proration formula works for purposes of the separate account dividends received deduction in the context of a partnership structure. The article explains the historical background of the proration formula as it appeared in the 1959 Act and the differences between how the applies and affects the dividends received deduction in the partnership structure versus the more tradition RIC structure.

Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. A noted expert with a degree from the graduate program in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston-Clear Lake discusses long-term forecasting and planning, the future of information technology and technology transfer, strategic planning and the development of future scenarios.

Description: From the 1969 Transactions Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 59 AB, this document is the minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in New York City, April 21-22, 1969.

Description: From the 1969 Transactions Vol. 21 Pt. 1 No. 59 AB, this document is the minutes of the Regional Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Atlanta, May 1-2, 1969.

Description: Recap of the health sessions at the 2014 SOA Annual Meeting.

Description: From the 1986 Transactions Vol. 38, this document is the minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Chicago October 6-8, 1986.

Description: Lillian Dittrick’s strategic analytics team at UnityPoint Health® has developed an application to automatically cull unstructured doctors’ notes in electronic medical records. Dittrick’s team is part of a strategic analytics department that did not exist three years ago. UnityPoint Health®, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, has assembled a team of people who use advanced analytics to build more complete patient risk stratification models by mining claims, clinical and social determinant data in new ways.

Description: Comments on how the profession is changing due to computers and the need for continuing education in order to adapt.

Description: Brief essay on the benefits of focused pratice and the idea that differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a long-life persistence of deliberate effort to improve performance.