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  • Operation De-Risk: Creative Arrangements for Sharing Risks
    and the accrued capital must be used to buy an annuity at retire- ment. In recent years, however, a ... employee. On retirement, instead of purchasing an annuity for retiring members, benefits are typically ...

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    • Authors: JOHN ANDREW TURNER, Conrad Ferguson, Mark Anthony Macharia
    • Date: Jun 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Defined contribution and 401k plans; Pensions & Retirement>Hybrid plans
  • ERM Executive Compensation
    ERM Executive Compensation This article looks at Enterprise Risk ... Management - ERM - and how executive compensation’s disconnect from long term stock performance has been ...

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    • Authors: Nian-Chih Yang
    • Date: Aug 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Independent Consultant
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
  • Stochastic Optimization Techniques for Pricing Callable Bonds: Continuous Time Approach
    bond CB and its counterpart regular Bond B s with sinking fund S. Assume that the schedule of sinking fund ... and Ps -price of bond B s . Then Optimization Problem I P, = rain P b s ,S This fact explains why ...

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    • Authors: Mark Saksonov
    • Date: Jan 1996
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
  • COLI Update - Court Decides Xcel Had Insurable Interest In Broad-Based COLI and Sixth Circuit Overturns Taxpayer-Favorable Decision in Dow Chemical COLI Case
    COLI Update - Court Decides Xcel Had Insurable Interest In Broad-Based COLI and Sixth Circuit ... court decisions. The first concerns a District Court’s ruling on insurable interest, and the second provides ...

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    • Authors: Frederic Gelfond, Susan Hotine, Peter Winslow
    • Date: May 2006
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • Long-Term Care Product Design: Two Common Sense Reccommendations
    and a 5 percent long- term inflation rate?) The table in Figure 1 sum- marizes the total CPI, the medical ... based on the all-urban consumer price index (CPI-U). • Annual funding: Because the “cost” of the CPI ...

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    • Authors: Edward P Mohoric
    • Date: Jan 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
    • Topics: Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Reinsurance>Product development - Reinsurance
  • A Portfolio Approach to Retirement Income Security
    of their Social Security benefits or buying an annuity, but in the process, they’ll reduce the amount ... dividend income • Buying a guaranteed lifetime annuity from an insurance com- pany (think of it as a ...

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    • Authors: Steven Vernon
    • Date: May 2016
    • Competency: Communication>Difficult message delivery; Communication>Persuasive communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Pension Section News
    • Topics: Annuities>Fixed annuities; Annuities>Individual annuities; Annuities>Investment strategy - Annuities; Demography>Longevity; Economics>Behavioral economics; Finance & Investments>Asset allocation; Pensions & Retirement>Defined contribution and 401k plans
  • Proactively Managing Life Insurance Risks
    situation for life (mortality) and health products, it does pose a challenge for annuity (longevity) products ... products. Using payout annuity as an example, if the real- time tracking and data analytics tells an ...

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    • Authors: Feng Sun, Amy Tran
    • Date: Aug 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Risk Management
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance; Predictive Analytics
  • A Workable Approach to Lifetime Income in DC Plans
    Historically, UTC offered retirement benefits to our U.S.- based employees through a traditional defined ... strategy into a portfolio that holds variable annuity contracts backed by three very well- known and ...

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    • Authors: Kevin T Hanney
    • Date: May 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Retirement Section News
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Investment policy; Pensions & Retirement>Defined contribution and 401k plans; Pensions & Retirement>Risk management
  • How to Turn Suspects Into Prospects
    sales and accelerate the growth of your business. Let’s start with the end. You actually have prospects when: ... You are talking to decision-makers; Your company’s products/services are potential solutions to the clients’ ...
    • Date: May 2017
    • Competency: Communication>Active listening; Communication>Difficult message delivery; Communication>Oral communication; Communication>Persuasive communication; Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Leadership>Change management; Leadership>Influence; Leadership>Mentoring; Leadership>Professional network leverage; Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Ethical standards; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Relationship Management>Relationships and trust; Relationship Management>Staff management and motivation; Relationship Management>Team leadership; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Assess decision effectiveness; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Strategic Insight and Integration>Management partnership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • A Conversation with Alan Mills, ND, FSA
    had long pondered, namely to build a model of the U.S. health care system. It had become clear to me that ... do it for a health care system, perhaps even the U.S. health care system. Mary: From there, at the University ...

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    • Authors: Mary Moran
    • Date: Jan 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation