Description: Author discusses how the proposed new AOMR will affect small companies.

Description: Find out what roles reinsurance and reinsurance intermediaries play for ceding companies in need of capital and the providers of such capital.

Description: Discusses Aug. 23, 2007, meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah, about principles-based approach for both reserves and risk-based capital, RBC.

Description: A discussion of the work of the Low Interest Environment Team of the Smaller Insurance Company Section including a blog, presentations, and public literature.

Description: The numerous restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have certainly affected everyone and those measures may have consequences for our health. The article attempts to uncover possible links between COVID-19 and depression.

Description: This paper is a primer for actuaries with limited experience in accessing and using public data sets. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Introducing the Respresentative Scenarios Method, the Motivation and Goals, how the methodology works, and what key information can be derived.

Description: An overview of key considerations for benefit triggers in critical illness products

Description: Just as the U.S. is dealing with a new surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations and death, the pandemic’s impact on the nation’s mortality rate is generating heightened interest. Two new reports issued from the Society of Actuaries provide important insights.

Description: This article discusses the current status, including differing views, on the treatment of risk transfer in reinsurance agreements under the principle-based reserves PBR approach.