Description: The Society of Actuaries Product Development Section, the Modeling Section, the Reinsurance Section and the Financial Reporting Section announce the release of a new research report that introduces a novel framework for leveraging the "architecture" of an industry mortality table within a company's predictive analytics-based insured mortality analysis.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2016. The report, the tenth in a series, includes comparisons to the previous surveys.

Description: A document summarizing key observations on historical U.S. population mortality rates by gender and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2018.

Description: Argues that defined benefit plans do a much better job than 401ks in providing lifetime retirement income and points out other drawbacks of corporations switching plan types.

Description: This article covers the importance of a system peer review within the systems change control process and offers suggestions for creating more robust controls.

Description: An overview of reinsurance training class provided to the Bermuda Monetary Authority (Authority) and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Central Bank) covering all aspects of reinsurance. Article also provides an overview of initiatives that the two regulators (Authority and Central Bank) are involved with.

Description: Since 2017, treatment of advanced deadly cancers – particularly lung cancer and metastatic melanoma – has undergone a major paradigm shift. Traditional pillars of cancer treatment – surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy – have moved to 2 new efficacious approaches: tumor genomics and immunotherapy.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. The panelists discuss the financial management of insurance company liabilities, including the criteria for identifying significant product portfolios, lessons learned from historical results, and the challenges facing the financial managers in the future. They discuss the state of management information for appropriate product or market segments and how to improve it, and action plans for financial managers to improve financial results. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: Article from The Actuary, March 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 3, which are excerpts from the author's presidential address to the Southeastern Actuaries Club in November 1982 where Professor Batten demonstrates a lack of approval of the new education syllabus and outlines his concerns. In particular, the author is concerned that the education syllabus is moving too far in the direction of theoretical statistical techniques at the expense of teaching practical subjects such a demography and life contingencies.