Description: We look in this article at the challenges which life insurance companies operating in a low interest environment have to face.

Description: This article, an Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, is a discussion of the various issues relating to measurement of data in healthcare. The author presents “a light hearted & tongue-in-cheek take on how healthcare is typically measured, and an entrepreneurial vision for a better world.” Noting that typically data is summarized in deterministic models that produce point estimates for analysis and decision making, the author’s vision presented in the paper “is that of a central repository of actuarially modeled distributions that can either be used as benchmarks or adapted to an organization's experience.”

Description: This article is a review of Peter F. Drucker’s 1980 book ‘Managing in Turbulent Times.’ The reviewer notes that this is a troubling book ‘to anyone familiar with the unsettled outlook for our economic, political, and social environment,’ because of Mr. Drucker’s credibility as a management analyst, and because ‘the turbulent times that he identifies call for changes in management attitudes and practices that are difficult to make.’

Description: This article describes the allocation of FATCA withholding risk in cross-border reinsurance arrangements and discusses practical considerations in regards to the drafting of those agreements.

Description: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by Faisal Siddiqi from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, April 2004, Issue No. 14.