Description: Book review of Employee Benefits, written by Burton T. Beam, Jr., and John J. McFadden. Published in 1985 by Richard D. Irwin, Inc. 486 pages plus bibliography and index.

Description: Discusses the problem with options that insurers have been dealing with for some years, not the options of various sorts that recently have been coming into use as portfolio-management tools. Recommends better asset/liability matching and other courses of action.

Description: Chief actuary of the California Insurance Department provides excerpts from a paper he presented his personal views to the Actuarial Research Conference in October 1986. He states that the regulators need to be aware of a deteriorating financial condition of an insurer in time to protect its policyholders from the consequences of insolvency.

Description: Reports on the Florida winter meeting of the NAIC’s Life and Health Actuarial Task Force, LHATF, regarding an agreement that was reached on an approach to be taken to reconstitute the Standard Valuation Law, SVL, applicable to life insurers.

Description: Highlights using core skills in value added analysis and discusses the value of this analysis to insurers and to other businesses.

Description: The article explores the use of economic capital modeling to deliver value to clients by improving the financial security of many individual lives around the world in a cost-effective way.

Description: This article explores the changing risk profile between the transitional Affordable Care Act (ACA) period (2014-2016) and under the final ACA period (beyond 2017) for the individual market. Actuaries are in a unique position to help facilitate the change from the current ACA period to the final period when health plans will have to take on substantially more risk.

Description: Profiles of five actuaries who pursued nontraditional careers, using their actuarial skills and experience in a new area.

Description: The article focuses on the use of predictive analytics in the development of experience studies, pros and cons of using predictive analytics versus traditional techniques, and the implications for setting assumptions and improving profitability.

Description: Article, written by the Economist and Director of the Research Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, discusses the nature and quality of the CPI and the use of it to adjust pension benefits.