Description: Note from Editor introducing the articles in this issue.

Description: Regular Corner where the Editor introduces the new issue and summarizes its content.

Description: Chairperson's update on the International Section.

Description: Here are the The Actuary of the Future Section’s past year’s highlights, as well as a sneak preview of our future plans.

Description: Summary of activities by the product development council.

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.

Description: Shares updates of the Actuary of the Future section

Description: Milliman was engaged by the SOA to conduct two Accelerated Underwriting (AU) surveys, one of direct companies and another of reinsurers. The surveys explored actual results from 2019–2021 and expected results from 2022.

Description: Highlights the section's accomplishments as well as the new section of Risk Management.

Description: At its two-day meeting in February, the Executive Committee, as is customary, concentrated on a few topics, which this year were: Sections, Education Policy, Planning, and Public Relations. The Board decided that two changes in our Constitution, both concerning admission to Associateship, should he submitted to the Fellows for approval.