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  • The Financial Risk Of Life And Annuity Unclaimed Property
    The Financial Risk Of Life And Annuity Unclaimed Property Feature article about how life insurance companies ... companies can manage the financial risk of life and annuity unclaimed property. ;; Life insurance; Risk measurement; ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Oct 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Annuities>Capital - Annuities; Enterprise Risk Management>Financial management; Life Insurance>Claims - Life Insurance
  • Alternatives to Disability Rider Benefits: Brazilian Update
    Provides background on the Brazilian insurance authority's ban of the group life rider benefit for Total and ... As a result of the Brazilian insurance authority's ban of the life rider benefit, companies will need ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Dec 2005
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Disability insurance
  • Editorial: Back to the Basics
    happened? How did we get in this financial crisis? It's my personal view that there were three contributing ... global reinsurance giant who was lamenting his company's poor underwriting results for the last few years.

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Aug 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Economics
  • Another Risk Management Book On The Best–Sellers List...
    sold in airports. OK, they haven't quite made Oprah's book club as yet... but have patience. I recall when ... and Boards of Directors assumed that the company's risks were being well-managed and it is quite likely ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Dec 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
  • Editorial: Confessions Of A Facebook Junkie: Actuarial Science Clashes with Pop Culture
    rpoonaffat@yahoo.com. Visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SSGSWWP if you wish to participate in the Facebook ... of the profession. Right now only 10 percent of U.S. com- panies allow access to Facebook. Social ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Jun 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Technology & Applications>Social media
  • Editorial - The Only Constant Is Change
    N/A; Editorial The Only Constant Is Change It's been only a couple months since the last edition of ... Presidential Elections. Change is inevitable; in fact it's the only constant in our lives. As insurance professionals ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Apr 2007
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • Opening of the Brazilian Reinsurance Market
    ly 30 percent of the IRB's premium is retroceded making the IRB the world's largest purchaser of Retrocession ... preferential access to 60 percent of an insurance company's total reinsurance cessions in the first three years ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat, Karsten Steinmetz
    • Date: Jun 2007
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Life reinsurance
  • Cash is King
    will enhance the financial integrity of a company's financial statements. As part of these general ledger ... financial errors. It would be a wise move on a company's part to establish a back up plan for each cash function ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Feb 2007
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks
  • Editorial: Megatrends
    Editorial: Megatrends John Naisbitt, in Megatrends, defined a megatrend as a general shift in thinking ... which have the potential to temper future mortality improvements. 2) The increasing financial clout ...

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    • Authors: Ronald Poon-Affat
    • Date: Feb 2010
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Global Perspectives