Description: This article describes the potential effects of a Guideline Premium Forceout on the policy values and administration of Universal Life policies.

Description: Comments on intriguing and amusing newspaper items which touch on technical fields.

Description: On October 30, 2015, the SOA Assumption Development and Governance Group, an informal discussion group consisting of nearly 200 interested actuaries with topics pertaining to actuarial assumption development and governance, organized an industry discussion call on end-to-end assumption documentation practices. The purpose of this call was to generate a large list of ideas for best-practice assumption documentation. More than thirty companies were represented in the call, including direct insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. This article is the work product of the discussion written by Laurie Li and Alex Zaidlin.

Description: The SOA president discusses how communication skills are of paramount importance to actuaries’ success.

Description: SOA media contributions, recent research studies, recommended readings and professional development opportunities.

Description: Department article that describes how the SOA is extending its e-Learning system with a set of new social learning tools.

Description: Book review of Steve Vernon’s Money for Life, Turn your IRA and 401(k) into a Lifetime Retirement Paycheck

Description: E-courses available from the Society of Actuaries.

Description: Introduction of new section council members.

Description: Looking at some specific data visualization types that may be less familiar to actuaries, with examples. All are implementable in Excel.