Description: The Pension Forum is for the publication of papers on pension-related topics and discussions of those papers. It is published on an ad hoc basis by the Pension Section of the Society of Actuaries, and delivered to Pension Section members free of charge.

Description: Overview of evolving industry trends and examples of how life insurers in Canada are innovating.

Description: Article discusses the following: Need for wholesalers in our industry What is a wholesaler in our industry What are some of the wholesaler models

Description: A 2015 Society of Actuaries Report (co-sponsored by the Reinsurance Section, Product Development Section, and Committee on Life Insurance Research) entitled “Life and Annuity Living Benefit Riders: Considerations for Insurers and Reinsurers,” is available on the Society of Actuaries website (www.soa.org). It covers a wide range of living benefit riders with medically-related triggers on life or annuity products. This article is largely derived from that report, covering several of those riders. In order to add to the marketing implications of these plans, Claude Thau, in his capacity as President of Thau, Inc. has provided additional commentary from the perspective of a marketer who is active in this field.

Description: Explores the open vs. closed systems debate with regards to actuarial modeling and exposes the over-simplification. Valuable for anyone who uses models.

Description: Describes Standard Life's business model transformation.

Description: Brief update on International Section initiatives.