Description: Updates on HPC activities, including new work groups for providing input to key players as health care reform moves on from the legislative phase into the regulatory phase, as well as ongoing activities of existing workgroups in financial reporting, long term care, stop loss, disease management, Medicare SUpplement, sovency, cancer claims experience, and risk adjustment.

Description: A comment letter to policymakers produced jointly by the SOA and AAA presents findings from their actuarial analysis of the proposed CLASS Act. The analysis indicates that the proposed structure and funding approaches will be unsustainable, and will cover only a very small proportion of the intended population. The opt-out and guaranteed issue provisions of the plan pose a risk that soon the program will either need increased premiums and/or significant reductions.

Description: A brief summary of the AAE and its activities

Description: This article covers the results of the elections for the 2013 product development section council. In particular, it gives the background on the following individuals who were newly elected to a 3-year term on the council: Vera Ljucovic, Jim Filmore, and Joe Kordovi. It also gives the background on Dave Moran who was chosen by the council for a 1-year term to replace a council member that had to step down prior to completing their 3-year term.

Description: In her address at the 1997 Society of Actuaries annual meeting, incoming president Anna Rappaport gave high priority to 'further developing multidisciplinary joint ventures with other professional associations and academia, including facilitating the exchange of ideas between academics and practitioners.' This article describes the results of that endeavor.

Description: A critique of the SOA's co-sponsoring of the Manhart Brief which addressed sex discrimination in pension rates. This critique argues that the brief violates the SOA constitution by expressing not just facts, but opinions, without following specified procedures for doing so.

Description: This article discusses the agenda and sponsors of the Society of Actuaries 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting held in San Francisco on October 17-20, 1999.

Description: Summary of results from survey of LTC Section members, on use of resources, meetings attendanceand topics of interest.

Description: In the Public Interest 2014 Issue 10 Interview with an Actuary in the Public Interest

Description: A Centennial Celebration of the founding of North America's first actuarial organization was held in 1989 in Washington, D.C. This article summarizes the presentations made by the Presidents of the five sponsoring organizations regarding the strengthening of the Actuarial profession. The five sponsoring organizations were the Society of Actuaries, the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice, the American Academy of Actuaries, the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.