Description: Review of 2010 events and accomplishments of the Untapped Opportunities work group for the Health Section: market research analyzing the perceptions and potential roles of actuaries in the broader health care industry, educational programs on medical and clinical matters, planned research destined to expand brand awareness of health actuaries, and building organizational partnerships.

Description: The article discusses the sustainability of the ACA individual market from a public entitlement standpoint. A key point of measuring sustainability is the reliance on market forces rather than federal budget constraints. The article explains why an actuarial viewpoint of sustainability is necessary to a greater extent than other public assistance and social insurance programs. The article challenges actuaries to be a bold, objective voice in a space that is full of opinionated but often uninformed viewpoints.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Overview of the valuation actuary's role, Product development implications, Actuarial profession implications, Implications for regulators, Implications for insurance company management.

Description: This is intended to serve as a fundamental resource for a basic understanding of ERM, as well as a guide to further study of the subject. Members of the Casualty Actuarial Society have participated in the effort, as well.

Description: Complete table of contents for volume 1, number 3 of the 1975 Record of Society of Actuaries. The contents are the presentations from the Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and the Society of Actuaries - Pensions, May 22-23, 1975.

Description: Beneficiaries who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid often have complex health needs. The two programs have not typically been well integrated and care can become uncoordinated, fragmented and incomplete. The ACA includes provisions to address the shortcomings.

Description: The author offers suggestions for selecting the subject of an article to write for publication. His advice is to include information about issues you have solved for your clients, but avoid writing about broad expertise that you know a lot about. Rather he suggests that “by focusing on specific, truly relevant problems, your readers will gain the wisdom of your consulting expertise.”

Description: A discussion on how, as some have worried, we are entering uncharted territory for countries such as the United States and the Eurozone, as large amounts of money are being expended to stave off major global financial crises.

Description: A detailed discussion on Private Letter Ruling 20123009 which states that owners of life insurance contracts in some circumstances want to decrease their death benefits and that the decreases contemplated are not ones resulting from application of a formula or other provision set forth in the contracts.