Description: A discussion of the work of the Low Interest Environment Team of the Smaller Insurance Company Section including a blog, presentations, and public literature.

Description: This article describes the sessions being sponsored by the Smaller Insurance Company Section at the upcoming annual meeting.

Description: A Tribute to Norman Hill

Description: Excerpts of blast emails sent out by the SmallCo Section are highlighted, covering life insurance valuation, federal reserve action, and nonforfeiture interest rates.

Description: This article describes the five webinars that the Smaller Insurance Company Section is planning for 2014.

Description: Full version of Small Talk Newsletter, May 2003, Issue No. 20.

Description: This article discusses how actuaries can determine whether they are qualified to do various kinds of actuarial work. The article refers to the code of professional conduct, the qualification standards, and the "look in the mirror" test. The article describes five case studies that provide examples of how to determine whether an actuary should accept a work assignment. A key conclusion is that actuaries are best protected if they use good professional judgment and do quality work.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session discussed the SOA research structure and provided an update on projects and experience studies.

Description: This presentation, session number 44PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. “This session identifies meaningful, evolving dramatic insights arising from the studies and techniques of futurism. It shows how such insights are measured and affected by each other and existing dynamics through the use of actuarial models and related tools.” The presentation notes that “future studies basically takes over when the assumption of continuity in models is a weak assumption or in which there is some reason to believe that one might not be able to use the same model throughout the whole forecasting period.” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: Discussion of the development of a new Preneed Valuation Mortality Table