Description: This article is aimed at developing young actuaries and how the current LTCI market offers much opportunity.

Description: The Chairperson of the Taxation Section shares the section council's plans and goals for 2017

Description: The approach of the year 2000 creates a millennial fascination which causes man to ponder his past, to assess his present, and to peer into his future. This study of the actuarial profession looks upon those design-steering aspects which can lead to a greater future. Although this work adopts the standpoint of a life company actuary, it views the entirety of the profession. All actuaries are bound up in essentially the same future. This study may have special interest to a young person contemplating the actuarial profession as a career. Consequently, an effort is made to consider the subject over the projected career of such a person- roughly to the year 2020. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1974, Vol. 26, Pt.1, No. 76.

Description: Panel session discussion of how universal access, quality of care, and controlling health care costs are being addressed in Latin American countries.

Description: Key points of the conceptual framework of China’s new solvency system, the “China Risk Oriented Solvency System” (C-ROSS).

Description: This article is about change, how it affects us, how we react to change, and how leaders need to be change agents.

Description: Four ways in which actuaries can effectively work to help successfully implement system development projects.

Description: The article is based on a range of industry insights, and provides readers with a broad overview of the emerging markets, industry trends, and challenges.

Description: The article discusses the sustainability of the ACA individual market from a public entitlement standpoint. A key point of measuring sustainability is the reliance on market forces rather than federal budget constraints. The article explains why an actuarial viewpoint of sustainability is necessary to a greater extent than other public assistance and social insurance programs. The article challenges actuaries to be a bold, objective voice in a space that is full of opinionated but often uninformed viewpoints.

Description: Research report sponsored by SOA to model and compare projected costs of different proposals for a Medicare prescription drug coverage plan. 3 types of costs are studied: net benefit cost estimates per member per month, continuance table data, and projected annual costs to the government over 10 years for two selected plan designs.