Description: Provides an overview of developments in the healthcare market including provider billing practices. Provides an overview of the Government Finance Officer’s Association (GFOA) in New York on Dec. 6, 2018

Description: Read the June 2020 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long Term Care Insurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article discusses the potential characteristics of health care reform and the associated impact on small insurance companies.

Description: A few large insurers dominate the Long Term Care market. This article discusses how smaller companies can overcome the hurdles to entry.

Description: This article discusses how small insurance companies can get into the complex equity indexed market by using alliances wherein there is one primary company and one or more secondary companies. The primary company would perform all of the functions for itself and some of the functions for the secondary companies. The companies pool assets to reach critical mass.

Description: Discussion of Asset Adequacy Analysis for one company's Long Term Care Product. Includes a discussion of the need for better asset/liability risk management for this company and how asset adequacy analysis can lead to the development of new investment strategies for the Company.

Description: Recently, there has been an increase in the product development of simplified issue products in the United States. In the past two years, Gen Re LifeHealth has reviewed over 40 such products, ranging from vanilla direct-marketed products to high-end single premium immediate annuity SPIA paid universal life products. From Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24.

Description: A discussion of the contents of this issue of smalltalk including regulatory issues that impact insurance and smaller insurance companies. Also discussed are two major regulatory issues, health care reform and financial regulatory reform.

Description: This paper is a primer for actuaries with limited experience in accessing and using public data sets. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: Results of the Smaller Insurance Company Section member survey to better understand the issues of importance to its members who serve in the health area