Description: A discussion of the hidden costs of administering complex Products including operational inefficiency, product development constraints, increased time to market, inability to monitor experience, and lost cross selling opportunities among other things

Description: Feature article describing more realistic stages of risk and how to manage each stage. From The Actuary Magazine, Dec 2009

Description: Article is a detailed discussion of the Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (RMORSA) Model Act that was recently approved by the NAIC and is being adopted by legislatures across the country.

Description: Insurers can leverage information from their required Own Risk Solvency Assessment (ORSA) and use it internally to improve the likelihood of solvency and gain a competitive advantage.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2016. The report, the tenth in a series, includes comparisons to the previous surveys.

Description: Letter From The President column for the October/November 2012 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing the importance of actuaries staying relevant in today’s and the future’s work force.

Description: Identity theft protection can be offered easily through many different distribution channels because ID theft protection is not considered an insurance product. Marketing to consumers directly via point of sale, direct marketing or worksite marketing are all viable alternatives. From News Direct, September 2005, Issue No. 51.

Description: Long term strategic planning may not be popular but is more effective in dealing with emerging risks.

Description: This paper presents the output of in-house research on an emerging area of risk appetite management and our global implementation best practices. It intends to provide readers with detail implementation of risk appetite framework and assessment across an organization. It provides the conceptual risk appetite framework based model- developed by the author, implementation plan, and global best practices of a risk appetite assessment across an organization. It identifies the challenges and exceptions in the risk appetite assessment with an approach to manage it effectively, and helps organizations with cost-benefit analysis. It also includes an illustrative case study.

Description: Newly released spring 2019 data added to the Actuaries Climate Index show that more frequent extreme weather and increases in sea level continue to push the index upward. The ACI’s five-year moving average now stands at 1.16, up from 1.12 last quarter.