Description: Budget concerns should not be allowed to override sound actuarial rate development in setting Medicaid capitation rates.

Description: This article is the second of a 3-part series. The article discusses how to clearly communicate the complexities of pension funding with clients.

Description: Write for your readers. That's what you can do to ensure that your emails, reports, and model updates are clear and contain the appropriate level of detail.

Description: Three papers use sophisticated actuarial methods to develop a straightforward retirement income strategy that can be implemented in virtually any IRA or 401(k).

Description: This essay advocates that the transition from DB to DC plans won't be complete until plan sponsors offer programs of retirement income in their DC plans. The essay discusses the relevant actuarial and behavioral issues.

Description: Although crisis management remain often seen through a “communication lens”, it has in reality more in common with risk management than usually thought. Both crisis and risk management are anticipatory endeavors, with most of the work being carried out in peace time; both require a deep understanding of the organization’s activities and ecosystem; both have the same overarching objective to enable the organization to survive a brutal change to its usual operating conditions. Developing integration between the two functions would thus go a long way toward a more resilient organization.

Description: Advice for introverts about marketing your business.

Description: A discussion of Actuarial Aspects of Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley

Description: The article presents a number of approaches to communicating and discussing risk with employer and retirement board members.

Description: The article contemplates whether there is heightened sensitivity towards how investment activity is portrayed and described.