Description: The NAIC Innovation work group has set out 10 ideas for improving the LTC insurance market. This article discusses and critiques those ideas.

Description: This article talks about the challenges facing the FDA, especially those arising from the globalization of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about participation in alternative delivery systems, direct contracting with medical providers, participation in coalitions, employer demands for data, employer selection criteria for health carriers.

Description: New research shows that we often make sub-optimal choices, when selecting a health insurance plan, that lead to unnecessary out-of-pocket expenditu

Description: A review of product and sales trends for variable, indexed and fixed annuities against the current backdrop of low interest rates and record equity market valuations

Description: Complete issue of the August 2014 Risk Management newsletter.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 16-17 in New York. The speaker comments that actuaries are well suited for strategic thinking by what they do, noting that “clearly strategy is very heavily involved in trying to understand the external environment and trying to forecast the future in some fashion.” The speaker also sees that “three fundamental factors that will have to be built into everything that we do. These three factors are internationalization or globalization, an understanding of quality, and an understanding of human resource management.” From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 2.

Description: This was a presentation of ACO efforts around the U.S. with great website links to resources, geared to actuarial consultants for employers. From May 2012.

Description: The article focuses on findings from EY's survey in 2017 of CROs at 40 insurers in North America. Changing roles in the age of disruption are investigated.

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.