Description: AICPA Non-Traditional Long- Durations Contracts Task Force—A Status Report by Thomas Campbell from The Financial Reporter, May 1999, Issue No. 39. by Thomas Campbell

Description: Panelists discuss issues and concerns about the long-term viability of the Canadian Pension Plan CPP. An update of the financial aspects of the system is presented and experts discuss the issues and alternatives under consideration. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: This article is about how Canada's health care system has evolved since the first provincially funded system. The author incites actuaries to be proactive in supplying quantitative tools and to contribute to the public debate in addressing future changes.

Description: This article discusses a multiyear design for stop-loss reinsurance used by employers offering self-funded medical benefit programs.

Description: 1999 Market Triathlon Results by Frank M. Grossman from Risks and Rewards Newsletter, September 2000, Issue No. 35.

Description: A divisive confrontation over health care pricing is almost inevitable over the next few years. What will ultimately happen is a political decision, not an actuarial one—but it will have major consequences for the trend in health care costs and the divergence between public and private insurance premiums.

Description: Feature article discussing the differences in the Canadian and American real estate markets.

Description: Long-Term Care Insurance: Suggestions to focus on various products for different market segments to address all the challenges in the current one product system. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session discussed the professional obligations of the valuation actuary in the light of the absence, in 1988, of an American Academy of Actuaries professional code of conduct.

Description: An article that profiles actuaries who enjoy running.