Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: In the absence of a generally accepted guide to actuarial principles and practices for pension plans, a new professional firm offering actuarial consulting services has both the freedom to establish and the burden of establishing the professional policies by which it will be guided. Our thinking about the practical and professional necessity of annual valuations is reflected in this paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 69 AB.

Description: Software vendors participating in the A Comparative Analysis of Claims–Based Tools for Health Risk Assessment study were invited to submit comments on the study. In this document, MEDai comments on their contribution to the study's source data, and their results.

Description: This session from the 1993 Valuation Actuary Symposium discusses the draft of the group LTD practice notes, the disabled lives reserve DLR, the IBNR liability, the testing of a company performed at year-end 1992 to determine reserve adequacy and an overview of of the individual disability income IDI practice notes.

Description: How insurers can build trust with the customers, particularly in the context of micro-insurance.

Description: The SOA president emphasizes the importance of actuaries maintaining their level of professionalism by always striving to inform and prepare the decision maker with all the possibilities, not just the quick answers or the minimum level of disclosure.

Description: Resources to help actuaries advance their careers.

Description: Letter to editor responding to "“Blood, Guts, ASOPs and Delivery System Reform", interpreting ASOPs differently than the authors.