Description: Discussion of the insurance industry in Ireland and the related regulatory and tax issues.

Description: Describes the risk-based capital measure adopted in Switzerland.

Description: This article describes some implications of increasing government intervention in the industry, such as the potential to eliminate the industry's ability to classify risk due to anti-discrimination laws and pressure to expand social 'insurance' programs

Description: A committee chaired by former Prime Minister, Sir Harold Wilson, has published its findings from a study on the functioning of British financial institutions and their value to the economy. This article reports on five of the report's topics that are of special interest to actuaries.

Description: The Actuary Vol. 22 , No. 7. This articles explores the dangers posed by many guaranteed-return life insurance and annuity products.

Description: On Dec. 29, 1973 President Nixon signed into law the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, which authorizes $375 million to be used by the DHEW to stimulate the establishment and development of HMO's over the next five years. This article describes the status of the regulations and the development of additional HMO's.

Description: Observations from the author's experiences auditing blocks of LTCI business.

Description: Discussion of events of a the June 2009 NAIC/LHATF meeting.

Description: Describes the changes in insurance regulation on both an international and US perspective.

Description: In this 1977 editorial, the author, an associate editor of The Actuary, discusses the significant changes in federal insurance law in Canada, under which prescribed assumptions will be replaced by the assumptions deemed appropriate by the valuation actuary.