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  • Operation De-Risk: Creative Arrangements for Sharing Risks
    Operation De-Risk: Creative Arrangements for Sharing Risks This article discusses the risk-sharing arrangements provided by a number of different types of hybrid pensions, focusing on hybrid ...

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    • Authors: JOHN ANDREW TURNER, Conrad Ferguson, Mark Anthony Macharia
    • Date: Jun 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Defined benefit plans; Pensions & Retirement>Defined contribution and 401k plans; Pensions & Retirement>Hybrid plans
  • Joint Life Annuity Formulations
    Joint Life Annuity Formulations Outline of modifications to formulas in previously released FORTRAN program to compute two-life annuities, including those designated 'qualified joint and ...

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    • Authors: Samuel Cox
    • Date: Jan 1978
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Technology & Applications
  • The Actuary VOL. 15, No. 1 1979 Agent Termination Tables
    The Actuary VOL. 15, No. 1 1979 Agent Termination Tables The author describes a recent LIMRA study of agent terminations. The article describes the assumptions and methods used in the study, and ...

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    • Authors: Joseph R Brzezinski
    • Date: Jan 1981
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data
  • Controlling Our Behavior
    Controlling Our Behavior This article describes behavioral finance and its relevance in identifying analytics and processes suitable for a control environment for the actuarial aspects of an ...

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    • Authors: Mark Griffin
    • Date: Jan 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Effective decision-making
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Economics>Behavioral economics; Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
  • Improving Experience Studies
    Improving Experience Studies Discusses changes that the Experience Committees of the Society are making to their processes to improve timeliness and quality of data. Morbidity rates=Morbidity ...

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    • Authors: Mark G. Doherty
    • Date: Feb 1987
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • ERM in the Hierarchy of Corporate Needs
    ERM in the Hierarchy of Corporate Needs Enterprise risk management (ERM) needs to be seen in perspective of other management priorities and is not first in the hierarchy of corporate needs.

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    • Authors: David Ingram
    • Date: Jun 2013
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Risk management
  • Own The Problem - That's Where To Start. Says Actuary -Tuned-Exec
    Own The Problem - That's Where To Start. Says Actuary -Tuned-Exec This article is about Stanley B. Tulin's actuarial career and lessons he has learned regarding what leads to a ...

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    • Authors: Jacqueline Bitowt
    • Date: Oct 1997
    • Competency: Communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Actuarial Profession>Traditional careers
  • AB Initio
    AB Initio Book review for An American Philosophy of Social Security written by the chairman for the original Social Security Advisory Council and discusses the original and subsequent thinking ...

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    • Authors: E H Wells
    • Date: Oct 1972
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Social Insurance>Government-funded healthcare; Social Insurance>Medicare; Social Insurance>Social Security
  • A Futurist's Technique in Pricing
    A Futurist's Technique in Pricing In our rapidly changing world, it is becoming hopeless to try to arrive at a satisfying description of future conditions, even in the short run. Yet prices ...

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    • Authors: Claude Thau
    • Date: Dec 1980
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Book Review
    Book Review This is an appraisal of changes from a previous edition of the book, Actuarial Phases of Marketing Operations-Individual Life and Health, by the Society of Actuaries and LIMRA.

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    • Authors: A David Pelletier
    • Date: Mar 1980
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance