Description: This is the SOA website page displaying the table of contents for Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Implications series of essays.

Description: A collection of essays written on the current financial crisis, lessons learned and future implications.

Description: Contained in Appendix 4 of the 1987 Valuation Actuary Handbook, this set of articles sets forth the positions of various industry groups with regard to the valuation actuary concept as of January 1987. It consists of four sections: 4.1 – Excerpts from the Report of the Task Force on the Valuation Actuary to the ACLI Board of Directors, August 1986 4.2 – Final Report of the Joint Committee on the Role of the Valuation Actuary in the United States 4.3 – Preliminary Report to NAIC Life & Health Actuarial Task Force from Surplus & Solvency Subcommittee of NAIC Standing Technical Advisory Committee, October 9-10, 1986 and 4.4 – Draft Recommendation 7 – American Academy of Actuaries paper. Views of the American Council of Life Insurance, ‘ACLI,’ the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, ‘NAIC,’ the American Academy of Actuaries, and the Society of Actuaries are all represented. Note that the final report in 4.2 above was adopted in 1984 by the boards of both the Academy and Society, the two organizations represented on the Joint Committee.

Description: This article contains reviews of the following books published in 1962 and 1963: 1. 'Health Insurance Provided through Individual Policies' by Edwin L. Bartleson, 2. 'Law and the Life Insurance Contract' by J. E. Greider and W. T. Beadles, 3. 'Medical Care and Health Insurance' by J. F. Follmann, Jr., and 4. 'Hospital and Medical Economics: A Study of Population, Services, Costs, Methods of Payment, and Controls' by W. J. McNerney. Notices of other articles and publications are also included. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 43.

Description: Discussion of the diversification activities of a number of life insurance companies. This includes the formation of, or acquisition of, property and casualty insurers, variable annuity companies, mutual fund management companies, banks, finance companies, leasing companies, real estate development companies, televisions and radio stations, newspapers, software consultants and other corporate enterprises. Discussion includes: 1. Activities really compatible with the llfe insurance product. 2. Activities otherwise compatible with corporate objectives or offering potentially large profit centers. 3. Activities which can be an excessive drain on corporate earnings and executive manpower 4. The actuary's role in these diversification activities. Then the discussion goes into a discussion of corporate planning models

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: This is a transcript of a session at the Spring 1975 meeting in NY and highlights disclosure and cost comparison, equal opportunities and human rights legislation and impact on ways of doing business. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Description: Discussion of the following topics pertaining to disability income and other health insurance: 1. What portions of the loss of income and of the expenses incurred are properly insurable? 2. What special problems are encountered in providing suitable coverage for the following: a Employees and dependents eligible under Group plans b Individuals employed or not employed and their dependents ineligible under Group plans c Aged persons. 3. Methods for companies to meet the problems of overinsurance arising from duplication of coverage or from other causes?

Description: Read the June 2016 issue of Taxing Times.

Description: The purpose of this literature guide is to provide the reader with sources of information ranging, from introductory to advanced, in the areas of LTC insurance design, marketing, pricing, and valuation.