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: This discussion looks at various topics associated with the 1958 CSO Tables and answers the following: What is the effect of these tables on premium rates, non-forfeiture benefits, reserves and other policy values? Are there any advantages to be gained by anticipating the deadline date January 1, 1966 for adoption of the new tables?

Description: Statistics about entertainment industry pension plans.

Description: Updated metrics for measuring financial stress among multiemployer pension plans in the United States.

Description: An update to the 1990-99 study, data was collected covering the experience period from 01/01/00 – 12/31/07. The data was gathered throughout 2009 from 16 companies. After reviewing the data provided by the participating companies, the committee decided that it would be appropriate to produce a new experience report that would cover the entire 18 years of experience data that had been gathered over the last decade.

Description: The Health Plan Employee Data and Information Set 'HEDIS' is a set of standardized performance measures initially designed to enable purchasers of health care to evaluate and compare a managed care plan’s administrative performance. The National Committee for Quality Assurance, known as the NCQA, developed HEDIS in 1991. Since its introduction, HEDIS has become a widely used tool for measuring a broad array of health plan functions. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of HEDIS measures. It also reviews the usefulness of HEDIS as an indicator of health care quality.

Description: “Non-traditional” guarantees refer to guarantees that are in addition to traditional mortality, expense, and interest guarantees. Examples of such types of guarantees are death and living benefits on variable annuity contracts and no-lapse guarantees on universal life or variable universal life products. The purpose of this paper is to offer practitioners an overview of the various issues concerning the pricing of these guarantees, the many other issues which need to be analyzed and addressed in the determination of risks and the management of the block of business, and the results of a company survey of practices. This paper is based on the working knowledge of the authors, a broad compilation of literature and the company survey results. At the end of most sections of the paper, we have provided a list of resources which we have selected as some of the best sources available for those practitioners interested in researching the subject matter further.

Description: Presentation of proposals that are designed to further improve actuarial education by anticipating educational needs based on future change in the nature of actuarial work. The paper is divided into three sections: I. Current and Past Education of Actuaries II. Actuaries as Customers for Education and III. The Future Educational Needs of Actuaries and How These Needs Might Be Implemented. Followed by several submitted discussion papers.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Reviews: '1975 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...' by the US Congress, 'Providing Adequate Retirement Income' by Schulz, Carrin, Krupp, Peschke, Sclar and Steenberge, 'Ernst & Ernst GAAP - Stock Life Companies' by Posnak, 'Reports of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security' by US Government, 'Fundamentals of Private Pensions' by McGill. Digests also included.

Description: Report highlighting some income tax legislative and litigation issues for insurance companies in 1962