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  • Small Talk March 2013
    Also, for companies with $50 million or more of direct premiums, the experience reporting requirements ... (VM22) and health insurance, including long-term care and cancer (VM25), remain under current statutory ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Mar 2013
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk, December 2018, Issue 50
    and other topics. Health insurance and long-term care insurance have their own pages. The organization ... change as well. The mom-and-pop approach to customer care will also slowly lose its appeal as the new generation ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: 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: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Smaller Life Insurance Companies and Smaller Life Reinsurers: The Partnership Solution
    near future. For small life insurance companies (direct writers) the impact of fewer life reinsurance ... reasons. Unlike their larger sized brethren, smaller direct writers need reinsurance to make many of their ...

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    • Authors: Jay Jaffe
    • Date: Nov 2010
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Small Talk Newsletter, May 2003, Issue No. 20
    cussing current challenges facing global health care systems, and how the SOA can best serve its members ... interrelationships of the system stakeholders. The primary goal is to provide the public with an actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Mark C Rowley, James Thompson, Eric Sondergeld, Susan Kimball, Graham D Ireland
    • Date: May 2003
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Small Talk Newsletter, May 1999, Issue No. 13
    This hotly argued rec- ommendation will have a direct impact on the bottom line and give rise to addi- ... complacency. Corporate law typically imposes standards of care on the company’s managers and directors which could ...

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    • Authors: Richard H Browne, Cherri R Divin, Norman E Hill, Mike Lombardi, James Thompson, Scott J Cipinko, Cecilia Green, Jacqueline Bitowt, Thomas F Streiff, Ara C Trembly
    • Date: May 1999
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • The New Risk Management Professionals
    by the new risk manage- ment professionals. A primary tool used by actuaries for managing risk was conservatism ... They were developed in the context of pricing primary and derivative securities, with variability of ...

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    • Authors: Narayan S Shankar
    • Date: Nov 2004
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Portfolio management - ERM
  • Small Talk Newsletter, December 1998, Issue No. 12
    remember changes in our nation’s overall health care system were almost mandated on employers. The same ... from both valuation and tax perspectives. The primary products affected are level premium term insurance ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill, James Reiskytl, Edward J Slaby, James Thompson, James Van Elsen, Patrick Lusk, Al Barthelman, Wallace F Dale, Rick Storms
    • Date: Dec 1998
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • The Strategic Importance of Inter-Company Mortality Studies
    factors have also con- tributed. One factor is the care and professional- ism with which actuaries have ... insured mortality and trends than most direct writers. Many direct insurers are in the situation that they ...

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    • Authors: Narayan S Shankar
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • Small Policies = Big Controversy
    home serv- ice in force and from newer blocks of direct response business. This issue thus crosses all ... there are likely tens of millions in force. • Direct response, including juvenile policies sold to ...

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    • Authors: John Ladley
    • Date: May 2001
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Small Companies & Federal vs. State Regulation
    companies started tocome under fire in the early ’90s. Primary causes were insolvencies of several large life ... concern over rate increases on existing long term care products. Once again, minimum loss ratios have been ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill
    • Date: Sep 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Public Policy