Description: The article focuses on the use of predictive analytics in the development of experience studies, pros and cons of using predictive analytics versus traditional techniques, and the implications for setting assumptions and improving profitability.

Description: Update of FASB's tentative decisions on revising the accounting for long-duration insurance contracts, now that decisions on measurement are substantively complete.

Description: This is an Impairment Study Capture System (ISCS) study of contemporary Diabetes Mellitus mortality among insured lives. The policies were issued at standard or substandard premium rates between 1989 and 2002 policy anniversaries.

Description: Summarizing the four C’s of reviewing an ORSA: Comprehensiveness, Consistency, Comparability, and Consumability

Description: This is a discussion about employee benefit plans after retirement. The following questions are addressed: 1. To what extent are death benefits and medical benefits for employees and dependents kept in force after the employee retires?, 2. Where there is a continuation of such benefits for a retired employee or his dependent, what special problems can result from remarriage or reemployment, or in the event of the enactment of a federal plan?, 3. What methods of paying for or funding such costs are used?, and 4. What are the tax implications to both the employee and employer of the various approaches? Also discussed are insured vs. non-insured plans and valuation standards for pension plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: Feature article describing how insurers that see beyond seemingly simple baseline requirements can leverage ORSA compliance to bolster ERM capabilities.

Description: An analytical basis about national trends and state specific factors that may be driving the auto insurance loss costs.

Description: This panel discussion addresses the following questions regarding premium factors under individual accident and sickness insurance: 1. What level of expenses are companies experiencing in underwriting, claims administration and general administration under various coverages including hospital-surgical, major medical, loss of time and over-age policies? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of premium scales for hospital-surgical and major medical policies which vary by geographic area? Can the problems be met better by variations in benefits? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting discusses current economic conditions and their implications on the funding, plan design and administration of pension plans. It also discusses the role of the FSA and EA in a small consulting firm and the future of consulting actuaries. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 2, Session 56pd.

Description: The abstract for the paper Risk: Applying a New Portfolio Risk/Return Measurement Methodology Based on Recent Advances in Quantifying Stable Paretian Fat Tailed Distributions and Investor Loss Aversion Preferences.