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  • Insurance Company Organization For Survival
    organizations, they tend to start confusing where the primary focus is. The functional orientation, obviously ... operations would be those f_ctions that don't have direct contact with a customer and internal support would ...

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    • Authors: W Randolph Adams, Lawrence V Durland, L James Ellsworth, Joseph Hogan
    • Date: Oct 1983
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Annuities; Life Insurance
  • Improvement of Core Financial Processes with Data Science
    Improvement of Core Financial Processes with Data Science Interesting ways for financial ... range of analytics. Consider these entries: A very direct translation of the bag-of-words model to accounts ...
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: CompAct
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Financial Services Modernization-What's the Impact on Banks and Insurance Companies?
    obtained. The expansion of current programs was the primary contributor to the growth. In the earlier studies ... they’re all pretty close. Personal auto, long-term care and commercial property/casualty coverages are likely ...

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    • Authors: James B Smith, Kerry Kixmiller, Steven Lash, E Kenneth Reynolds
    • Date: Oct 2000
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Public Policy
  • The Fundamental Trends Reshaping Life Insurance
    with an apartment for life and op- tional medical care and other features. The product is aimed at older ... of the cost of comprehensive, long-term health-care policies. And the benefits of the plan are so simple ...

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    • Authors: Bartlomiej Maciaga, Achim Schwetlick, Alpesh Shah
    • Date: Jul 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
    • Topics: Annuities>Product development - Annuities; Life Insurance>Product development - Life Insurance
  • Effective Interviewing I Know in the First Two Minutes...
    things, said my uncle, "you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must ... didn't know how to manage. They were too busy taking care of other areas of the company." Here was a definite ...

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    • Authors: Lisa Tourville, Aimee Kaye
    • Date: Oct 1999
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • Life Reinsurance in the Mexican Market
    penetra- tion of disability income or long-term care products. Microinsurance is another area seeing ... currently quite small: of the $9.2 billion of direct insurance premium in 2012, only $592 million was ...

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    • Authors: Ricardo Nava Ramirez
    • Date: Oct 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance; Reinsurance>Reserving - Reinsurance
  • Chairperson’s Corner
    Buying Longevity Products or Covering Your Health Care Costs—Analysis from a Sales & Marketing Viewpoint”; ... aging population as well as the fact that health care markets have experienced so much change in the last ...
    • Authors: Adam Vanevenhoven
    • Date: May 2014
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: News Direct
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Global Perspectives>Global markets
  • Editorial
    benefits market. Human Nature and the U.S. Health Care System, Part IV. This is the fourth and last installment ... interactions of those who participate in the U.S. health care system. We are interested in your feedback and ideas ...
    • Authors: Carlos Eduardo Fuentes, Chris Greig
    • Date: May 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; Leadership>Change management; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Innovators & Entrepreneurs
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Economics>Health economics; Economics>Macroeconomics
  • This Seems Like a Job Interview
    surveillance can influence one’s career trajectory. Direct observation is one way we form impres- sions of ... suppose your personal brand is “TCOB”, i.e., Takes Care of Business. People with this reputation are trusted ...

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    • Authors: Steven J Gaspar
    • Date: Jul 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • A Review of Root Cause in Insurer Insolvencies
    liability; Life & Annuity, Health including long- term care (LTC); and Health cooperatives. Figure 1 Number ... circumstances. Some insurer insolvencies point to one primary causal driver, such as fraud. However, a majority ...

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    • Authors: Veronika Cooper, David Heppen
    • Date: Jun 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>General business skills; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Professional Values>Practice expertise
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments