Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 38, Number 5 - May 2004

Description: Feature article discussing the pros and cons of insurance companies in stretch management, using dreams to set business targets with no idea how to get there.

Description: Editorial that explores how underlying issues of the economic bubble were actuarial in nature.

Description: Editorial discussing risk management in today’s economic world.

Description: In this article the author suggests a game-changing idea - Require as part of the governance process an “independent risk audit” performed by a CERA.

Description: Article from The Actuary, April 1986, Volume 20, No. 4, that highlights non-traditional perspectives. It is fashionable these days to characterize actuarial jobs as either traditional or non-traditional. My experience, however, as an actuary working for a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, leads me to conclude that the traditional skills associated with actuarial training are quite appropriate for the activities of a stock brokerage.

Description: The editorial discusses the challenges and actuarial considerations of older workers remaining in the workforce longer than they have in the past.

Description: The following is a list of recommended readings from the contributing editors that they feel will pique your interest and help keep you informed.

Description: This is an article that highlights an alternative method for determining the impact of a change in interest rates on the factor which converts a life annuity to a 100% joint and survivor annuity. It also discusses the factors for early retirement and deferred retirement.