Description: A discussion of risk-relevant resources available at the Society of Actuaries Risk Management Task Force Web site

Description: This article describes services of a reinsurance intermediary and the use of reinsurance to meet financial objectives.

Description: This article covers the importance of a system peer review within the systems change control process and offers suggestions for creating more robust controls.

Description: Farewell comments by Noel J. Abkemeier at the end of his term as Chairperson of the Product Development Section in 2003. Includes highlights of successes of the Section and thank you's to significant contributors to the Section.

Description: On October 30, 2015, the SOA Assumption Development and Governance Group, an informal discussion group consisting of nearly 200 interested actuaries with topics pertaining to actuarial assumption development and governance, organized an industry discussion call on end-to-end assumption documentation practices. The purpose of this call was to generate a large list of ideas for best-practice assumption documentation. More than thirty companies were represented in the call, including direct insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. This article is the work product of the discussion written by Laurie Li and Alex Zaidlin.

Description: Column describing the events of a recent Product Development Symposium 2009.

Description: An article from the Chairman of the Product Development Section Council with a brief discussion of plans for the section for the upcoming year 2009.

Description: discussion of the Product Development Section’s plans for the annual meeting.

Description: The article illustrates a method to price a term life policy to properly reflect the post conversion experience. The article also suggested a reserving method.

Description: A preview on the Spring Society of Actuaries meetings in May of 2009.