Description: Effectiveness in Administrating Individual Life Insurance Policies

Description: Describes the results of the 2015 Product Development section council election as well as providing background on the new committee members.

Description: September 2015 Reinsurance News

Description: We discuss the challenges of Excel usage in companies, and what needs to be considered in order to develop robust modeling governance.

Description: Read the September 2017 issue of NewsDirect published by the Marketing & Distribution Section.

Description: This article is about a tool called the Life Styles Inventory used to increase your personal and professional effectiveness. It can be used to initiate positive changes in how you think and act.

Description: An article that offers a reinsurance professional's perspective on re-engineering which resulted in strengthened and improved service to their clients as well as net improvement to their bottom line.

Description: This presentation, session number 53PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists note that “for several years only a few foreign insurers were permitted to provide life and health insurance in China. In recent years, regulators have been more receptive to the new entry of foreign insurers…” Topics include history of the development of the market, market demographics, including regionalization, types of products, distribution systems, and regulatory requirements for entry and continued operation. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: This 2001 article warns against the risks of investing in an IPO, particularly in light of recent history.

Description: In this article the author notes that investment strategy development is fundamentally a communications exercise between the investment and actuarial functions. The article explores four questions with respect to investment strategy: 1 how to make money 2 how to avoid earnings fluctuations 3 how to avoid catastrophic loss and 4 how to choose a new investment idea.