Description: The Life Practice Area seeks input on strategic issues including the timeliness of experience reports, the increasing levels of regulation, defending risk classification, ant the viability of the actuarial profession.

Description: This article is seeking participation from companies focused on nontraditional products and/or nontraditional distribution for the SOA Inter-Company Expense Study.

Description: This article shows some vital statistics of Canada including births, deaths, marriages and divorces per 1000 population along with motor vehicle deaths in the years 1972, 1975, 1978 and 1981.

Description: London's book supersedes the graduation monograph of Morton D. Miller and T.N.E. Greville’s Study Note on the Society of Actuaries’ syllabus. Although London's book covers much the same methods as did the predecessors, he adds emphasis to the Bayes Theorem and also emphasizes techniques making good use of personal computers.

Description: Discusses a proposal that was ultimately accepted to have the Medical Information Bureau take responsibility for SOA intercompany impairment studies.

Description: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has developed a data bank containing information about pensions and changing prices, extracted from 1,100 companies’ annual reports.

Description: Feature article discussing actuarial assumptions in the investment world and financial models.

Description: CMS provides ACOs with monthly claims data for members, including their medical visits and ACO program eligibility. This data can be divided into Membership and Claims tables through the ETL process. However, when calculating PMPY at specific levels of detail using these tables, issues arise due to unrelated dimensions, leading to inaccurate and understated results. This article presents a solution to this problem by utilizing Tableau's data blending capabilities.

Description: This article discusses what the U.S. Census Bureau has to offer. The information includes surveys on population, housing, income, expenditures, crime and health. In addition, it includes censuses and surveys of most U.S. businesses.

Description: An analysis of health insurance cost and benefit trends using January 1, 2011 data from state employee medical plan renewals.