Description: Come hear about the latest trends and insights as this panel discusses the happenings in life insurance marketplace. The panel plans to cover product, regulatory, underwriting, marketing, and other trends to help keep the audience up to date on many of Life's changing events.

Description: Studying for the Group and Health Design and Pricing (GHDP) Exam includes reviewing the syllabus and other supplemental materials.

Description: The objective of this paper is to discuss the factors that affect and should be considered in the development of social discount rates, with a primary focus on social cost-benefit analyses of climate change-related strategies, programs, and investments involving mitigation and ex-ante adaption efforts.

Description: The Society of Actuaries is pleased to make available a research report that investigates defined benefit retirement plan de-risking activities for U.S.-based companies and the relative impact of various implemented strategies.

Description: This report is prepared to provide a comprehensive overview of the professional financial advice industry including the strengths and weaknesses of currently available approaches to providing (and receiving) financial advice, particularly as part of an employer-sponsored employee benefit. Financial advice is broadly defined to include traditional methods as well as alternative methods to providing personalized guidance. This report is also designed to provide guidance for retirement plan sponsors in making decisions regarding the role, scope, and delivery models of financial advice to plan participants. As appropriate, the report differentiates between investment advice, which includes investment management and asset accumulation decisions, and retirement advice, which includes retirement preparation, security, and planning decisions, and is built upon a thorough understanding of an individual’s personal values and goals. Rather than provide an actionable list for plan sponsors to implement, this report is designed to raise awareness of the issues that are worth considering.

Description: What is the cost of providing a prescription drug benefit plan for Medicare enrollees? The following research report: Projected Cost Analysis of Potential Medicare Pharmacy Plan Designs, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section and Health Practice Area, explores this important and pressing issue that has been the subject of recent front page headlines.

Description: This paper is intended to be a resource for actuaries and other professionals interested in learning more about longevity risk. It summarizes the results of the literature review by discussing observed trends and outlook on mortality, development of retirement markets, ways to mitigate risk, summary of products with risk exposure and quantification and management of the risk.

Description: Describes substandard annuities and discusses the market opportunity for them, the associated risk management issues, and the issues companies need to address when competing in the substandard annuity market - underwriting, pricing, sales, administration, financial reporting and risk management practices.

Description: Survey results for 2008 produced by the Policyholder Behavior in the Tail Risk Management Section Working Group in which insurers were asked about assumptions used with respect to policyholder behavior in universal life policies with secondary guarantees.

Description: This web site provides an introduction to a report that explores the linkage between risk management, capital management and financial management within insurance companies and other industries. The report was motivated by a desire to examine how companies can institute processes and infrastructure to optimize the interaction between these critical functional areas. A link is provided to the report which is entitled 'Complete Report - Linkage of Risk Management, Capital Management and Financial Management.'