Description: The article contemplates whether there is heightened sensitivity towards how investment activity is portrayed and described.

Description: The article makes reference to how the intervention by government agencies and institutions into the financial marketplace are creating distortions. This artificial tampering into market mechanisms will likely result in major financial dislocations down the road as natural economic forces (coined by the term "invisible hand") eventually are allowed to come into play.

Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: Article On Making Ourselves Useful In Our Communities by Moorhead in The Actuary, June 1979, Volume 13, Number 6. Gasoline conservation.

Description: Understanding the true drivers of human behavior is essential if we are to capitalize on opportunities offered in a new era of personalized persuasion.

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: Summary of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

Description: Nonprofit ideas shares lessons from the field about how a better understanding of underserved consumers can lead to better product design.

Description: A proposal to reform the health care provider payment system through: a national fee schedule, shifting more reimbursements to primary care providers, better integration of hospital & physician fees, evidence based care, pay for performance, and a better provider risk sharing mechanism.