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  • The New Risk Management Professionals
    by the new risk manage- ment professionals. A primary tool used by actuaries for managing risk was conservatism ... They were developed in the context of pricing primary and derivative securities, with variability of ...

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    • Authors: Narayan S Shankar
    • Date: Nov 2004
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Portfolio management - ERM
  • The Strategic Importance of Inter-Company Mortality Studies
    factors have also con- tributed. One factor is the care and professional- ism with which actuaries have ... insured mortality and trends than most direct writers. Many direct insurers are in the situation that they ...

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    • Authors: Narayan S Shankar
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • Chairperson's Corner: SMALLCO ROCKS
    informed about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Brad is a member of our PBA Product team. ... Ferrari. Council member Grant Hemphill is our primary editor of Small Talk; serving with Mark and outgoing ...

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    • Authors: Donald Walker
    • Date: Mar 2014
    • Competency: Relationship Management>Staff management and motivation
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations
  • Is There A Spof in Your Future?
    • GICS • Equity-indexed annuities • Long-term care Current problems with product filing are due in ... life, annuity, variable, disability, or long-term care. The working group stated that their hope was that ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill
    • Date: Dec 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Annuities; Health & Disability; Life Insurance
  • Small Talk Issue 51
    COMPANY SECTION Recent Developments in the Health Care Market By Michael L. Frank Page 8 ISSUE 51 • ... David Schraub 8 Recent Developments in the Health Care Market By Michael L. Frank 13 What Can Reinsurance ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jul 2019
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Professional Values; Relationship Management; Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Several Reasons Excel Should Not Be Your Production-Level Actuarial System
    Should actuaries continue to use Excel as their primary tool, they will be less effective in their communications ... is now in cell $E$17. It might look fine to the primary user in the moment, but the chain of data integrity ...

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    • Authors: Stephan Mathys
    • Date: Mar 2021
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Software
  • Regulatory Update for 2013
    PBR a. Non-variable annuities and long-term care (VM22 and VM25, respectively)—No firm proposals ... the primary demand for PBR and reserve reductions. Also, these products seem to be the primary products ...

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    • Authors: Norman E Hill
    • Date: Mar 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Smalltalk - Issue 34 - June 2010
    insurance companies with $500 million or more in direct and assumed premiums (and certain RBC thresholds) ... difficult times. Two major regulatory issues, health care reform and financial regulatory reform, have been ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jun 2010
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • What is Critical Illness Insurance?
    products such as disability income or long-term care. Under the accelerat- ed rider, the policyholder ... ket including individual, voluntary (worksite), direct response and group. Some products may offer a series ...

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    • Authors: Susan Kimball
    • Date: May 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Critical illness insurance
  • A New Look at Reinsurers and Term
    Smaller Insurance Company Section Newsletter Direct writers have increasingly faced a“hardening” market ... has created an unprecedented environment between direct writers and reinsurers. At the SOA meeting in October ...

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    • Authors: W Howell Pugh
    • Date: Jun 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Reinsurance>Life reinsurance