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  • Small Talk Newsletter, June 2007, Issue No. 28
    preliminary Academy presentation on PBR for long-term care was made to LHATF. It was structured as a series ... assumptions. Another regulator stated that long-term care reserves under PBR should be twice as high as current ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Mark Birdsall, Norman E Hill, Cary O Lakenbach, Leon Langlitz, Raymond Ted Schlude, James Thompson, Ronora Stryker, Meg Weber, Arthur Aaronson
    • Date: Jun 2007
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Navigating the NAIC
    Navigating the NAIC By Mark Birdsall W hy should you care about navigating the National Association of Insurance ... force, working group and subgroup levels. The primary work of the NAIC is done by task forces, working ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Mar 2015
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Using Relevant Experience Data to Increase Credibility and Reduce Margins
    case of a reinsurer providing experi- ence to a direct writer to use in setting the mortality assumption ... based on credibility levels but should be used with care. The width of the distribution of reinsurer experience ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Marianne C Purushotham
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Small Talk Newsletter, November 2007, Issue No. 29
    should be “safe” niches. Today, lines like long-term care, stop loss, long-term disability and variable products ... Talk • 7 Issue 29 Today, lines like long-term care, stop loss, long-term disability and variable products ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Christian J DesRochers, Norman E Hill, Terry Long, James Thompson, Donald Walker, Steven Siegel, ADAM ALLEN WHITE, Meg Weber, Jeffrey B Norris
    • Date: Nov 2007
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Relevant Industry Mortality Experience and Guaranteed Issue Mortality
    an association group or other group used in a direct-to-consumer context but could not be based on ... table is most relevant to GI life insurance sold direct-to-consumer for less than 25 units (each unit repre- ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Introducing the Representative Scenarios Method - Part 1
    life insurance, variable annuities, and long-term care, as well as nonvariable annuities. In Part 2 of ... guaranteed life- time withdrawal benefits, and long-term care insurance, in- cluding the calculations of the ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Stephen Strommen
    • Date: Sep 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Company Profitability and Risk Dashboards--A Tool in the Understanding and Management of Risk, Part 1
    Company Profitability and Risk Dashboards--A Tool in the Understanding and Management of Risk, ... first step, companies will need to identify the primary risks inherent in their current product portfolios ...

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    • Authors: Marianne C Purushotham, Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Sep 2016
    • Competency: Communication>Difficult message delivery; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making; Strategic Insight and Integration>Influence decisions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance; Predictive Analytics
  • Representative Scenarios Method (RSM) Part 2-Field Testing the RSM
    working on a case study apply- ing RSM to long-term care insurance, using all the lessons learned so far ... building on the previous work of the AAA’s Long Term Care Work Group (LTCWG). An additional re- finement to ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall, Stephen Strommen
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Competency: Leadership>Influence; Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • June Webinar Topic: Sensitivity Testing and Setting Margins, Plus a Fully Stochastic PBR Method
    June Webinar Topic: Sensitivity Testing and Setting Margins, Plus a Fully Stochastic PBR ... emerging PBR requirements for annuities, long-term care, and long-term dis- ability have the same exemptions ...

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    • Authors: Mark Birdsall
    • Date: Sep 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Scenario generation; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models