Description: The Society of Actuaries' managing director of actuarial research provided an overview of research activities including the funding behind research projects and the staff/volunteers involved with research.

Description: Read about the progression of SOA's ongoing research projects such as the “Actuarial Aspects of Continuing Care Retirement Communities project and the “Interest Sensitive Cash Flow and Analysis” project. Article from The Actuary, Volume 24, Issue 2

Description: This article discusses analyzing employee benefit costs in mergers and acquisitions. This article is focused on what to watch out for.

Description: This interactive session provides an introduction to behavioral economics, including groups identifying areas where behavioral economics could be applied in actuarial practice. Experience a practical application workshop using behavioral economics for direct sale products. Break out into small groups and develop an outline of a BE based sales program for a product of your choosing to be sold over the internet. Gain feedback and take part in a discussion. By attending the session, you will: - Understand the basic concepts of behavioral economics. - Have some ideas of how it can be applied to actuarial practice. - Learn how to design a product using BE and how to design an experiment to test the effectiveness of an application of BE.

Description: This presentation at the SOA 1990 Dallas Spring Meeting is about the importance of good customer service and how taking care of the customer leads to a good bottom line.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: This article summarizes the results of a Delphi study amoung SOA Futurism Section members about the actuarial profession and the U.S. economy and other matters in the years 2010 and 2050.

Description: A Mexican actuary discusses his career, the challenges of different insurance markets in different cultures, the value of sharing knowledge across countries and across professions, and the latest public policy regarding solvency models.

Description: In 2021, Deloitte and the SOA conducted a research study on emerging technologies in which the current use and future outlook of these technologies for the actuarial profession were evaluated.

Description: Limitations in actual practice as a health care actuary due to lack of standards, lack of internal data, too much external data, lack of control. Issue No. 38.