Description: Update on activities in the Smaller Insurance Company Section

Description: A brief discussion on the importance of governance and documentation being in place. The article provides some resources to assist in the development, and the reasons behind having it in place.

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: The current drafts of the principle-based reserves PBR model law and accompanying regulations appear to include credit life insurance within the scope. It is expected that once the scope of PBR is expanded to include accident and health insurance, credit disability will fall within its scope as well. This article describes how will this affect credit actuaries.

Description: This article is a follow-up article on the principles-based reserves PBR movement in the life and health insurance industry. It discusses more in depth the possibility of principles-based reserves determined stochastically and changes proposed in the SVL for preferred mortality.

Description: Results of the Smaller Insurance Company Section member survey to better understand the issues of importance to its members who serve in the health area

Description: How companies with limited resources can put controls into place for their actuarial processes.

Description: Based on April webinar, develops nine guidelines for setting assumptions.

Description: Letter from the editor highlighting the articles in the December 2018 edition of Small Talk.

Description: Article contains the minutes of the Smaller Insurance Company Section Council Meeting.