Description: Updates on the efforts of the Academy’s health practice council. its work groups and task forces, to educate and influence health care policymakers on issues including principles for health care reform, Medicare, wellness programs, and solvency.

Description: Discusses the Canadian Institute of Actuaries report on whether the normal retirement age in Canadian social security programs and private programs should be increased and possible impacts.

Description: As stochastic modeling has evolved, it has divided down two paths—real-world and risk-neutral. This article discusses this division and shows how these paths may be re-united through the use of deflators.

Description: The paper gives two criteria for fit and uses two different criteria to transform an initial graduation into one with better fit. It is shown that the two sets of criteria give the same transformation. The mathematical relationships between the two sets of criteria are then derived. It is clear from those relationships that when one set of criteria is small, the other set is small [but reasonably the same]. Some general comments on various measures of fit are made.

Description: This is a transcript of a session at the Spring 1975 Meeting in New York and discussed the impact of economic conditions on current pension plan design, funding indexed benefits, investment of pension funds, actuarial responsibilities under ERISA and future outlook. 1975 Record, Vol.1, No.2

Description: Highlights of health related articles from the North American Actuarial Journal. A paper on health care reform and efficiency is published in a recent issue of the NAAJ.

Description: The author describes a course he and his colleague designed and taught at Columbia University called "A Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market."

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries. It addresses the following issues: Can individual policy retirement plans be sold by insurance agents without their becoming fiduciaries, what new features in funding contracts and prototypes plans are needed, and what extra costs for retirement plans are expected due to the reporting, dlsclosure, and actuarial valuation requirements of ERISA. 1975 Record Vol. 1, No. 3

Description: This article discusses the impact for MACRA legislation that will impact the Medicare Supplement market in 2020 and the ramifications for Med Supp carriers

Description: A theoretical study of the interrelationship between the financial and insurance risk markets.