Description: Hear from the editor’s on the March 2017 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Introduction to articles about Tax Reform

Description: In this article, the chairperson addresses the section regarding content creation.

Description: Provides a methodology for determining the value of the share of a particular individual in a joint and survivor annuity held by a trust.

Description: update on the activities of the pension section section council

Description: Summary of what the section has accomplished over the past year.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Editor Howard Calif introduces the new newsletter design and articles.

Description: In this paper, Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, the author examines the rapidly increasing costs of maintaining the U.S. prison system and the fiscal pressures the federal and state governments are faced with, and proposes a plan for an early prisoner release program “with a rigorous, merit-based approach that can be expected to demonstrate favorable outcomes for the general public and the released prisoner.” This plan involves “an optimized process for evaluating the perils associated with freeing candidates eligible for early release - an individualized assessment and quantification of those risks…” The article goes on to describe the costs, benefits, risks, and critical success factors. The report includes two appendices.