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  • Chairperson's Corner
    Chairperson's Corner Commentary from the outgoing SmallCo chair highlighting the section accomplishments ... calls for SmallCo have always been one of the section’s greatest strengths, but throughout 2020, with the ...

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    • Authors: Carolyn Covington
    • Date: Dec 2020
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
  • Letter from the Editor
    to the site highlighted here: U.S. Individual Life COVID-19 Mortality Experience Study – Fourth Quarter ... prior versions of this report, but this captures mortality results through for fourth quarter 2021. 2021 ...

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    • Authors: Scott Haglund
    • Date: Dec 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data
  • RBC Updates
    Insurers (ACLI) based on work completed by Moody's Analytics (Proposal 2021-11-L), and the other was ... meeting. The new bond factors are shown in Table 1. Table 1 Bond Risk Factors These factors appear on ...

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    • Authors: Douglas Brown
    • Date: Nov 2021
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • We Don’t Refer to Years Now: It’s Pre-COVID or Post-COVID
    We Don’t Refer to Years Now: It’s Pre-COVID or Post-COVID This article is about small business changes ... Small Talk, August 2022 When the pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020, work life certainly changed for most ...

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    • Authors: Tamara Lea Wilt
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Relationship Management; Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Alternative careers; Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • PBR Considerations and Benefits for Smaller Insurance Companies
    Principle Based Reserves, PBR, Life Insurance, Mortality, Reinsurance Support By Ali Balestra, Calvin ... reserve. Currently, PBR excludes products such as annuity, pre-need, guaranteed issue and group life and ...

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    • Authors: Alixandra Balestra, Calvin Y K Yeung, Jeffery Stroller
    • Date: Nov 2021
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance; Life Insurance>Reserves - Life Insurance
  • Critical Illness Benefits and Triggers: An Introduction
    Critical illness insurance is gaining popularity in the U.S. insurance market and has become a more common product ... referred to as “benefit triggers,” found in the U.S. marketplace, focusing on three questions: What events ...

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    • Authors: Ashlee Borcan, Stephen Rook
    • Date: Dec 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Risk Evaluation in the Final Stages of the Pandemic
    effectiveness, asset risk, and insurance (mortality and mortality) risk. By David Brentlinger Small Talk ... Model effectiveness Asset risk Insurance (mortality and mortality) risk Risk evaluation models which are ...

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    • Authors: David Brentlinger
    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Capital management - ERM; Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Sensitivity testing; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Value at risk - Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • I Didn’t Take All of Those Actuarial Exams for Nothing
    Exams for Nothing A story about a mother/actuary’s journey of discovering her work-life balance through ... thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green ...

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    • Authors: Tamara Lea Wilt
    • Date: Dec 2022
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • The Relation Between COVID-19 and Depression
    life. The most obvious statistic is the COVID-19 mortality: Current estimates put global deaths at close ... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U. S. has recently allocated $470 million to build a ...

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    • Date: Jul 2022
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Leadership; Relationship Management; Results-Oriented Solutions
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • Many Hands Make Light Work: Interviews With Former SmallCo Section Chairs, Part II
    Michelle Grusenmeyer Small Talk, December 2020 Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series of interviews ... it was just a year ago.  While attending this year's Virtual SOA Leadership Orientation Meeting, I couldn't ...

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    • Authors: Michelle Grusenmeyer
    • Date: Dec 2020
    • Competency: Leadership
    • Publication Name: Small Talk
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession