Description: This article describes services of a reinsurance intermediary and the use of reinsurance to meet financial objectives.

Description: This author summarizes tips for creating, promoting and sustaining innovation found in the book Weird Ideas That Work by Robert Sutton.

Description: This article contains a summary of some of the presentations given at the October 2013 SOA Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Description: A discussion of how patents can be used to recover the cost of innovation in product development and operations

Description: This discussion on expenses, briefly looks at what the smaller company can do about increasing unit costs and in view of increased costs, what simplifications can be made in the routine of policy change procedures.

Description: This paper discusses the issues of an independent actuary providing product development, or more accurately sales development, services to a life insurance company. The author explores the process, and proposes “compensation to the entrepreneurial actuary who accepts the challenge of operating in a setting where true success is not measured by isolating theoretical profit margins or business sold, but rather focusing attention on the unfolding experience of what is hopefully to be truly profitable policies.” Instead of basing the actuary’s compensation on time spent, the author is suggesting compensation based on results.

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 contains a summary of some of the presentations given at the 2016 Life and Annuity Symposi

Description: This study is intended to educate insurance professionals on historical insurer impairments and insolvencies and possible future prevention indicators.