Description: This is an interview with Michael Braunstein, one of the founding members of the Leadership & Development section.

Description: The article is based on a study of root causes in insurer insolvencies and impairments, with the focus on potential risk factors and prevention measures.

Description: Discusses a seminar that was run jointly under the auspices of the International Actuarial Association and the Groupe Consultatif in Europe. The theme was entitled “educating actuaries with a business orientation,” and the seminar covered skills that employers look for in actuaries and how business skills could be acquired.

Description: November 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: The current president of ACTEX, an actuarial learning company, shares the company's history, development, and vision for the future.

Description: At the November meeting of the IASB’s SAC, I raised strong support for the concept of a priority project to accelerate the development of a new conceptual framework for the IASB with emphasis on the role of reliability, the definition of liability, the meaning of probable, the effects of contingencies i.e. contingent probabilities, the unit of account and accounting for contractual rights and obligations. Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a longer address to the International Accounting Standards Board on guiding principles.

Description: Article comparing stable value and money market funds in terms of income production and risk level for defined contribution DC pension plan participants.

Description: August 2017 Crossword Puzzle.

Description: A review of Life Insurance Accounting, a reference work by twenty three authors under the direction of the Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association, IASA.

Description: A review of the Flesch formula for measuring the readability of insurance policies