Description: Recurring column that lists recent publications in risk management of note to readers.

Description: Since health care reform has made accountable care organizations a hot topic, an SOA workgroup is addressing relevant questions, including provider risk under various ACO models, limitations of the Medicare model for motivating change in the health care delivery system, strategic priorities, attribution of members, meaurement, and the roles actuaries can play.

Description: The Committee on Finance Research makes available a research report exploring the mechanics and implementation of economic capital programs for life insurance companies. Discussion items include common methods for calculating economic capital advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Description: Find more information about Actuarial System Implications of VM-20.

Description: The Indian market holds tremendous potential for insurance products, especially in segments that remain untapped. The market is evolving in terms of market penetration, product innovation, regulatory changes, government initiatives, capital adequacy and customer experience. In this report, we have highlighted insurance trends in India based on insights gathered from practitioners' interviews, available research and literature, with a particular focus on the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers a general risk model in which both the claim and income gain arrivals follow Poisson processes.

Description: Presented at August 2011 46th Actuarial Research Conference. This paper focuses on mainly focus on the case in which the risk variable follows a distribution function from a max-domain of attraction.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that reviews earlier research and identifies the major factors affecting the use of futures hedging by commodity producers.

Description: This paper presents the theory of immunization of investments to changes in interest rates and provides an extensive series of examples and formulas used in its implementation. Also presents some implications for investment behavior, product development, interest assumptions, valuation and adjusted earnings. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: The author will show that risk management is more than combining several processes and methods it is much more a company wide approach that enables an open dealing with chances and risks, requiring a change in culture, governance and decision rules across the whole organizations.