Description: Responsibilities Of The Actuary For Communicating Sarbanes-Oxley Control in accordance With Actuarial Standards of Practice

Description: In the absence of good research and analysis, decisions are made on the basis of intuition, unexamined assumption, and fixed ideas. This is the 'I believe…' approach to decision-making. The less information that individuals have, the more likely they are to rely on belief rather than evidence. This keynote address from the 43rd Actuarial Research Conference held in 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan discusses the importance of research in health care reform, talks about the difference between pure and applied research, and explains what separates good applied research from poor research. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 2009, Vol. 1.

Description: Inaugural article in a series to share resources with other actuaries at smaller companies. This article will introduce the reader to the Academy's Life and Health Valuation Law Manual, an annual publication containing numerous references, notes and guidelines to help valuation actuaries complete their statutory regulatory work.

Description: This article discusses challenges that short-term predictions have on actuaries' reputations, both as individuals and as a profession, and discusses strategies to improve our professionalism and better manage this risk.

Description: A retelling of the exploits of the little-known Batman villain, The Actuary, with lessons in professionalism and the limitations of predictive models.

Description: This article explains the Society of Actuaries' views on mandatory continuing education.

Description: This article from The Actuary, April 1971, volume 5, Issue 4 is about a pension section meeting. The moderator opened the meeting by laying down some general principles. Using market value instead of book, accounting for unrealized gains, taking cognizance of different cash flows, objectives, constraints on the manager, and other characteristics of the funds to be compared-all met with general acceptance, in this audience at least.

Description: This article includes updates on the IASB, the ACSEP publications for education on IFRS for insurance and the development of model standards - International Standards of Actuarial Practice.

Description: The ACLI porposed some changes to the current Standard Valuation Law even though Principles Based Reserving PBR is being considered as SVL II by the regulatory community. This article outlines the current SVL, those recent changes to the current SVL and the implications of the changes.

Description: Two valuation proposals have occupied the regulatory agenda this year—the ACLI Interim Proposal and SVL II or the Principles Based Approach PBA to reserving. This article summarizes the ACLI Interim Proposal to the current Standard Valuation Law which allows a new preferred mortality table to be used and changes Actuarial Guideline 38 to allow lapse.