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  • Role Of The Valuation Actuary In Product Development
    past years and the inverted yield curves as the primary factors. Whatever the reasons may be, they have ... contain, for a given strategic business unit, the direct expenses of that unit with respect to the organizational ...

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    • Authors: Arnold Dicke, John T Glass, Donald MacDonald, Jan Pollnow, Alan K Ryder
    • Date: May 1985
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • The Need for Speed: Achieving Maximum Run Time Performance
    is pretty advanced optimization. It took a lot of care to set up initially, but now it works well for ... Another way is to have a system of flags that direct traffic The Need for Speed: Achieving Maximum ...

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    • Authors: Philip Gold, Francis Sabatini, Alex Korogodsky
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency; Technology & Applications>Computer science; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Prescription Drug Update
    major driver of the return to double digit medical care premium increases and renewed interest in Congress ... joining AdvancePCS, Amy worked in managed health care managing actuarial analysis for both commercial ...

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    • Authors: Bryan Miller, Gordon R Trapnell, Amy Ann Companik
    • Date: Oct 2000
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Public Policy
  • Achieving Successful Organizational Integration
    change in a small Midwest community. We did some direct recognition in our dividend scale to stop the hemorrhaging ... part of their culture over the years, to build a direct, open, and honest communication process. The Cuna ...

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    • Authors: Irving R Burling, David A Whitsett
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Governance; Finance & Investments
  • Effective Use of Services Available to Small-Company Actuaries
    downside with consultants? There’s going to be a direct budget impact to your cost center. Let’s talk ... value-added means that it doesn’t necessarily have a direct budget cost. However, like with anything else ...

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    • Authors: Craig Nordyke, Jeffrey Stevenson, Douglas Knowling, Frank J Barrett, Robert F Grieb
    • Date: Oct 1996
    • Competency: Relationship Management>Staff management and motivation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • Financial Management Through Hard Times
    I’m in life reinsurance right now. I partner with direct writers and so a lot of my risk is their risk ... homes and be part of a neighborhood watch where we care about each other, not just overselves. MR. ROSS ...

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    • Authors: Frederick W Jackson, Andrew D Rallis, David A Rains
    • Date: May 2002
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management
  • Managing The Group Health Line: Technical Approaches To Analyzing, Monitoring And Projecting Group Health Experience
    by assigning priorities to information needs -- direct resources to produce that information which is ... constantly evaluate how we can best spend our time and direct our resources. If we go back to the previous chart ...

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    • Authors: Robert Dobson, Phyllis Doran
    • Date: Oct 1982
    • Competency: Communication; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance
  • Role Of The Actuary In Defining Investment Policy And Strategy
    and used by the investment community, but with direct input from actuaries and from the business community ... to flow into earnings. Of course, you've got the direct earnings on your surplus funds. The majority of ...

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    • Authors: David William Cook, Matthew Easley, John L Maginn, Christopher Perrin, Richard M Stenson
    • Date: May 1985
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
  • Financial Projections
    projected with trend analysis may not understand or care about collateralized mortgage Obligation (CMO) ... improve your valuation actuary work. Why do we care about coordination of financial projections? What ...

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    • Authors: Meredith Ratajczak, Douglas Knowling
    • Date: Sep 1995
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets
    because Munich Re is a reinsurer, and yet it bought a direct stake in Suramericana, which is the largest insurance ... remember the Aergo Group in Europe, which is a direct writer, too. MR. SALAZAR: But in Latin America ...

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    • Authors: Elisa M Wever, William R Horbatt, Camilo Salazar, David A. Chalfin, Samuel R Coleman, Gary P Timin, Richard de Haan
    • Date: May 2005
    • Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Finance & Investments; Global Perspectives>Multinational companies