Description: Socio-economic mortality differentials are important to insurers, reinsurers as well as the general public. Detecting them, tracking them and explaining them is the subject of ongoing research and debate within the actuarial community as well as the wider public. The intention is to raise awareness within the reinsurance section membership for mortality differentials and concentration risk, as well as highlighting the value of interdisciplinary work and modern statistical methods. This intention overlaps with the goal of the SOA's Living to 100 Symposium, to be held in January 2017 in Orlando, Fla.

Description: Chairperson’s column discussing the state of the world today and how that influences investment strategies and describes to seminars the section sponsored to keep members apprised of changes.

Description: This article contains excerpts from the first three articles that were released through the strategic initiative - Commercial Health Care: What’s Next?

Description: Using the Cox proportional Hazards Model to improve underwriting debits and credits.

Description: Article outlining the recent activity of the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force LATF VM-20 Subgroup activities and the Academy’s Life Reserve Working Group dealing with feedback from the VM-20 impact study.

Description: Overview on current trends in medical practice impacting the LTC insurance business with a focus on dementia, risk stratification, and predictive modeling.

Description: The chairperson discusses the aspects of the private long-term care insurance market and asks readers to identify areas needing change, e.g., regulation, pricing and marketing.

Description: A discussion of the recent announcement from FASB that certain reinsurance agreements, such as modified coinsurance arrangements, contain an embedded derivative that must be accounted for in accordance with FASB 133