Description: Find information about the feature article competition.

Description: In 1979 I was a catalyst in assembling an informal group-Chief Actuaries in Federal Service Coordinating Group-to discuss the question raised in the March Editorial, i.e., the desirability of creating a position of Government Awtuary at a high level in the Federal Government. There are now about fifteen Federal agencies or departments that employ actuaries.

Description: View the Fall 2020 Retirement Benefits—Design and Accounting, U.S. Exam Solution .

Description: Statutory and GAAP financial reporting revisions motivate enhanced modeling and more comprehensive hedging for equity-based products. The changes also bring about a number of implementation challenges. The presenters will outline how the reporting standards are changing and the resulting business implications.

Description: A glossary of terms.

Description: A call for essays issued by the SOA Health and Long Term Care Sections on the visions for the future of the U.S. health care system.

Description: View the Fall 2017 Introductory Study Note for the Retirement Benefits—Design And Accounting, U.S. Exam.

Description: Chapter 10 of the Models for Retirement Policy Analysis. This chapter describes the Macroeconomic-Demographic Model of the U.S. Retirement Income System used to investigate alternative approaches to investment of the OASDI trust funds.

Description: This article discusses the affects of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 PPA primarily in relation to defined benefits pension DB plans.

Description: This is an article about The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses CLICE and its completion of its fourth inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business issued in the United States.