Description: Understand the role of food based interventions in health care. Learn the difference between produce prescription and medically tailored meals. Review new policies that will affect Medicare and Medicaid populations. Evaluate the possibility of health cost savings due to these interventions.

Description: 1998 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. Panelists discussed the activity of the newly emerging mutual holding company structure. Advantages and disadvantages of a MHC structure were addressed.

Description: The February/March 2014 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.

Description: Review of paper describing Collective Defined Contribution Plans. the elimination of traditional pensions by many companies have left employees without easy access to reliable retirement income Collective Defined Contribution plans which are used to a small extent in the US but more broadly used elsewhere offer an option for consideration.

Description: This article gives an overview of the CFO Forum diversification paper. The key points that the CFO Forum made are: 1. The lack of sufficient diversifying strategies for risk management needs to be addressed. Therefore they provided a policy framework that promotes sound risk measurement and management practices in a way that can be implemented and supervised with confidence. 2. The lack of sufficient regulatory over-site needs to be addressed, so they presented a set of core principles to form the basis of European insurance regulation. These core principle incorporate diversification in a consistent manner.

Description: Family members who care for people with dementia need a wide range of support services to help them do the important work of care giving at home.

Description: Develop a better understanding of specialty drug trends and their increasing healthcare costs for more than the past decade by attending this webcast. With the introduction of price competition, you will see changes in the market for biosimilar products and patent-protected drugs. For example, the drug Humira will be gaining 10 biosimilar competitors in 2023. Alone, Humira can represent over 20% of total pharmacy spend for health plans. Join us and discover how price competition is a turning point for the pharmaceutical industry and will define its direction for the next decade.

Description: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: In September 2017, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) issued the “C-ROSS Phase II project construction plan”, planned to be used across three years’ time, by perfecting the regulations, improving the operational mechanism and strengthening the regulatory cooperation.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters, each offering a different perspective, discuss a case study involving a successful bancassurance program focusing on: 1. Targeted customer segments. 2. Insurance products involved. 3. Distribution channels utilized. 4. Selling/underwriting/issue processes. 5. Refinements to the initial offering. 6. Key success factors. 7. Sales results.