Description: Discussion of FASB's June 2018 meeting on accounting for targeted improvements for long-duration insurance contracts and summary of the decisions to date

Description: Author discusses her first office move after 15 years.

Description: A personal experience of joining the LTC industry and a brief perspective on how to address challenges facing the industry.

Description: Part 2 of a 2 part series. Tells about 5 concepts that can be thought to frame ERM. This article is about Alignment, Adaptability and Resilience.

Description: Address to the health section members from the section chairperson.

Description: The embattled life insurance industry in Australia needs to come to terms with a new environment of heightened claims volumes, unprecedented losses, changing distribution models and even reduced benefits. Like the mythological phoenix that spectacularly regenerates from its ashes every century, Australia’s life insurance industry needs something special to rise from its ashes. Claims management innovation promises to give the necessary impetus for a market that is desperate for some good news, whilst laying the foundation for a claims revolution worldwide.

Description: This article is about actuaries succeeding in non-insurance environments. These pioneers of the profession are creating a new paradigm for the future. Most of those actuaries have similar traits: vision, ability to 'think out of the box,' initiative, desire, ability to take risk, a high level of intelligence, creativity, leadership, and industry standing. All of those traits plus actuarial skills and training equal a powerful combination.

Description: This article is about how innovative use of technology will be a key differentiator for future success and maybe even survival, and how technology will switch from a defensive to an offensive tool, aimed principally at driving revenues. The article addresses the question: How will successful leaders in the insurance industry use technology in the future?

Description: The article summarizes Executive Orders from early in the Trump Administration that could affect the ability of IRS to publish tax guidance.

Description: This article describes the author's experiences in implementing best practices in insurance regulation in Tanzania, outlining the challenges of the project.