Description: The method described in this paper is to allocate surplus to each category of business and reserves in proportion to its estimated effect on an insurer's surplus variation. Risk load for each category of business is then selected so that the return on allocated surplus for each category is equal to the overall return on surplus. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: Panelists examine various types of critical illness plans, its success in Canada and other markets, and the challenges and opportunities for the U.S. market.

Description: This is a panel discussion about social insurance programs for health care in Canada and the United States and new developments in benefits and costs of the programs.

Description: An analysis of how to compute the variance of the present value of future annuity payments as a component of assessing the mortality component of the provision for adverse deviation in the computation of GAAP reserves.

Description: We employ a framework for the classification of mortality evolution patterns to HMD data. We find both supra-regional patterns and outliers from global trends.

Description: Feature article discussing the IASB’s and FASB’s introduction of the use of other comprehensive income (OCI) to report certain changes in the value of insurance contracts.

Description: These are the meeting minutes from the Regional Meeting held in Milwaukee, WI on May 27-28, 1968. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 57.

Description: Editorial for the October/November 2012 edition of The Actuary magazine discussing risk and uncertainty as two different concerns.

Description: The article described recent major advances in measurement of health programs and providers in the public and private sector.

Description: Discussion of the skills actuaries need going forward to be successful, and hence, incorporated into the new actuarial exam syllabus.