Description: The goal of this article is to provide some insight into life settlements. It reviews the benefits and the risks of conducting such a transaction. It covers how large the market is, why and when it would be appropriate, the transaction process, and the pricing and underwriting.

Description: Article describing the current plans to focus our attention on the mission and vision of the Actuary of the Future Section for 2019 and beyond.

Description: This article discusses the implications of a groundbreaking test that can help people determine how long they have left to live.

Description: Discusses results of author's recent survey of professionals in the viatical and life settlement, a.k.a. secondary insurance industry, to discover how actuaries could best serve this particular business.

Description: Evan Borisenko looks at previous challenging environments for the life insurance industry, such as the a period of severe stagnation in the 1930s, the increased inflation in the 1980s and a catastrophe like the Spanish influenza after the World War I. Evan explains that "while each event described above challenged the life insurance industry in a unique way, each event stimulated an equally unique solution." The article concludes that we "fight to repeat history" in a way that we as actuaries should be able to propose unique solutions with when faced with crisis in the future.