Description: Report on the first study conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the SOA Long Term Care Experience Committee. The study examines voluntary lapse and total termination activity in LTCI for calendar years 2000 and 2001. Overall, the results indicate that LTCI persistency has continued to improve however, the current improvement seems to be coming from the individual lines of business rather than the group lines.

Description: This article announces the product development section 2012 council members and introduces the new members Stephanie Grass, Kurt Guske and Tim Rozar.

Description: Editorial highlighting outstanding articles in the Financial Reporter newsletter

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: The panel offers a recap of the most recent initiatives being proposed for reform of the Medicare program. Items addressed include areas of actuarial concern, potential impacts on the insurance industry and responses initiated by the actuarial profession. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 48

Description: This listing is of the Officers, Immediat and Penultimate Past Presidents, and Elected Officials serving on the Board of Governors complete with Term expiration date. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: Preview of the LTC section's sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in October 2008, including claims management, litigation and public relations, preparing for PBA and stochastic modeling, pricing, research studies, and securitizations and reinsurance.

Description: Editor's comments on current issues in the LTC market such as Lyme Disease and new leadership in Washington, announcememt of the upcoming LTCI conference, and results from the latest LTC Section member satisfaction survey.

Description: The October/November 2013 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: This articles highlights actuaries living and working in Hong Kong. Actuaries now residing in Hong Kong number 14 Fellows, of whom 12 are Fellows of The Institute or Faculty, 2 of the Society.