Description: This is a teaching session on the techniques for improving management information in the group health line. From Record Vol. 8, No. 4

Description: Summary of the July, 2013 newsletter with an executive overview of each article.

Description: Review of a research project, co-sponsored by the SOA, which examined 83 organizations and over 150 programs that measure the quality and efficiency of hospitals and physicians.

Description: This article is about lessons that can be learned from failing, and how failure can be turned into success.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting discusses executive compensation including methods which relate compensation to the job that has been performed and incentive compensation. Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10 , No. 2

Description: Describes actuarial approaches used to quantify the benefit to employers of implementing financial wellness programs for their employees.

Description: As private payers ponders the early adoption of genomic testing to guide treatment pathways, can personalized approaches to care prove financially sound?

Description: Article provides an excellent summary of the importance of mathematics, computer models for determining the future for human-based financial security models, and the importance of recognizing how human behavior effects the financial security program.